datura (plural daturas)

1. A plant#Noun|plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet#Noun|trumpet-shaped#Adjective|shaped flower#Noun|flowers and poisonous properties. [from 16th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition 2, section 5, member 1, subsection 5:

     Garcias ab Horto [...] makes mention of an herb called datura, “which, if it be eaten for twenty-four hours following, takes away all sense of grief, makes them incline to laughter and mirth” [...].

   • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “The King’s Ankus”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 637556 ↗, page 188 ↗:

     "Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India.

   • 1985, Wade Davis (anthropologist), The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 37:

     Datura did grow in Haiti, three species, all of them introduced from the Old World.

   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 38:

     It was a decoction of datura that wrung the truth from the old woman, by sending her into a trance from which she never recovered.

• daturametelin
• datumetine
• datumetixone
• daturilin
• daturilinol

• German: Datura