Translingual

Datura fruit

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Datura f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae – the thorn apples and related plants.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Solanales - order; Solanaceae - family; Solanoideae - subfamily; Datureae - tribe

References

James A. H. Murray [et al.], editor (1884–1928) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697; and The Oxford English Dictionary; being a Corrected Re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (the First Supplement), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933, OCLC 2748467.

English

datura plant

Wikispecies

Noun

datura ‎(plural daturas)

1. A plant of the genus Datura.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.5.1.v:

     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” […].

   • 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.

Related terms

• daturametelin
• datumetine
• datumetixone
• daturilin
• daturilinol

Italian

Noun

datura f ‎(plural dature)

1. thorn apple (of genus Datura)

Anagrams

• durata

Latin

Participle

datūra

1. nominative feminine singular of datūrus
2. nominative neuter plural of datūrus
3. accusative neuter plural of datūrus
4. vocative feminine singular of datūrus
5. vocative neuter plural of datūrus

datūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of datūrus

References

• DATURA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)