datura
datura noun: a plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties.
Noun
datura (plural daturas)
- A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties.
- 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” [...].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section...
- "Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India.1895, Rudyard Kipling, “The King’s Ankus”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 188
datura meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Sanskrit
datura in Tamil
- தட்டுறா, ஊமத்தை
datura in Bengali
- datura
- ধুতুরা dhutura
datura in Kannada
- ದತ್ತೂರ, ಉಮ್ಮತ್ತಿ, ಒಂದು ವಿಷಸಸ್ಯ
datura in Sanskrit
- the Datura or thorn apple
- हिरण्य híraṇya
Examples of datura in a sentence
- "Suffice it that it was of the datura family which supplies deadly poisons as well as powerful medicines."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)...
- Datura did grow in Haiti, three species, all of them introduced from the Old World.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 37:
- 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.2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 38:
Forms of datura
| plural | daturas |
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Origin of datura
From the genus name.
Words formed from datura
Words that rhyme with datura
Questions about datura
- What does datura mean?
- Datura means a plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties.
- What is datura in Tamil?
- Datura in Tamil is தட்டுறா, ஊமத்தை. See Datura meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use datura in a sentence?
- "Suffice it that it was of the datura family which supplies deadly poisons as well as powerful medicines."
- What part of speech is datura?
- Datura is a noun.
- What is the plural of datura?
- The plural of datura is daturas.
Words near datura in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: datura (page history and authors); datura (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ধুতুরা (Bengali) (page history and authors); datura (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); हिरण्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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