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Meanings of deadly nightshade in English
Catalan
dolçamara 
Poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America.
Perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine.
Synonyms
Examples for "belladonna"
Examples for "belladonna"
1
That saddest of all changes she repaired by hand-massage, pomade, and belladonna.
2
Christ, Mark, I'll bet there isn't any belladonna within a five-hundred-mile radius.
3
Goethe had heard of Runge's groundbreaking investigation into belladonna, otherwise known as nightshade.
4
Sometimes it is advisable to paint the gland with belladonna ointment.
5
Simply because the criminal put a little atropine, or belladonna, with the morphine.
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Hyoscyamine and scopolamine are two main alkaloids in Atropa belladonna with great medicinal value.
2
Nightshade ( Atropa belladonna) is immediately recognisable for its deep purple fruit and was said to be tended by the Devil himself.
Usage of deadly nightshade in English
1
Baby's fat, juice of water parsnip, aconite, cinquefoil, deadly nightshade, and soot.
2
It was the deadly nightshade, and a handful of the berries spelt death.
3
Why, I found a stalk of deadly nightshade in my rose-bed last summer.
4
Water parsnip, sweet flag, cinquefoil, bat's blood, deadly nightshade, and oil.
5
The sorceress had thrown her into a trance by a preparation of deadly nightshade.
6
Explain: ranking officer, waives, cerebral elephantiasis, dictator, deadly nightshade, data, disparage, curmudgeon, chute, superseded.
7
Her eyes were purple-black, like the berries of the deadly nightshade seen in the twilight.
8
The deadly nightshade, he believed, was filled with hatred.
9
Often sold as an ornamental pepper plant, it is actually more closely related to deadly nightshade.
10
The deadly nightshade was indigenous to our times.
11
Another dish-looks like greens or a tangle of fine seaweed-isa preparation of the deadly nightshade.
12
That plant is the belladonna, or deadly nightshade.
13
This is not cinquefoil, it is deadly nightshade!
14
A pinch of opium, a dusting of mandrake root, that twisted member of the deadly nightshade family?
15
Is it deadly nightshade or black nightshade?
16
Early physicians mixed up a potent brew of deadly nightshade, hemlock, mandrake, henbane, opium, and other herbs as a surgical anesthetic.
