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Meanings of devil's herb in English
Species of toxic flowering plant in the nightshade family.
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Examples for "atropa belladonna"
Examples for "atropa belladonna"
1
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.
1
No beautiful death of well-beloved men hath such a glory of forlornness.
2
I don't care how it went down, he died a beautiful death.
3
The schoolmaster and his wife thought, with the pastor, that it was a beautiful death.
4
However, it's an astoundingly beautiful death trap at that.
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And what a beautiful death he died, long afterwards!
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For instance, he gives to the deadly nightshade the name, which now only lingers in a corner of Devonshire, the "dwale."
2
Mandragoras, hemlocks, hellebores, dwales, poured forth their odours, and made their heads swim till they reeled and tottered one against the other.
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