1A poisonous datura with large trumpet-shaped white flowers and toothed leaves, which has become a weed of waste ground in many countries.
曼陀罗。〈北美〉亦称JIMSON WEED
Datura stramonium, family Solanaceae
Also called jimson weed in North America
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Recipes of love stimulants frequently contained such plants, especially henbane, mandrake, and in later times thorn apple.
Important are the accounts of opium, aconite, hemlock, and the thorn apple, showing careful study of widely known poisons.
1.1The prickly fruit of the thorn apple, which resembles that of a horse chestnut.
(多刺的)曼陀罗果
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‘As well as being a hallucinogenic,’ says Phillips, ‘the thorn apple has a fiery, hot taste and causes sweating and burning sensations throughout the body’.
Definition of thorn apple in US English:
thorn apple
nounˈTHôrn ˌapəl
another term for jimson weed
Example sentencesExamples
Important are the accounts of opium, aconite, hemlock, and the thorn apple, showing careful study of widely known poisons.
Recipes of love stimulants frequently contained such plants, especially henbane, mandrake, and in later times thorn apple.