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thorn apple

NOUN
  1. any of several plants of the genus Datura

How To Use thorn apple In A Sentence

  • "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".
  • 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.
  • On inquiry, we found that the patient's relatives had made him drink a preparation made from the locally available datura (known as thorn apple or devil's weed) leaves, which contain atropine as the principal active alkaloid.
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