stramonium
stramonium noun: the jimsonweed or thornapple plant, Datura stramonium.
Noun
stramonium (countable and uncountable, plural stramoniums or stramonia)
- The jimsonweed or thornapple plant, Datura stramonium.
- Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229
- A narcotic drug obtained from the dried leaves of this plant.
stramonium meaning in Tamil
stramonium in Tamil
- முள் ஆப்பிள் இலை
Forms of stramonium
| plural | stramoniums |
|---|---|
| plural | stramonia |
Origin of stramonium
From New Latin stramonium, stramonia (attested since the 1540s), of unknown origin. (Compare Italian stramonio, attested since at least the 1560s.) The English word is attested since the 1660s. Some older dictionaries speculated that stramonium, as well as Russian дурма́н (durmán), might derive from a Turkic source like Tatar *turman (“medicine for horses”), but the Russian word is now thought to be an internal (native) formation, and the Tatar word, properly дәрман (därman, “remedy”), derives from Persian.
Words that rhyme with stramonium
- pandemonium
- plutonium
- harmonium
- meconium
- onium
- polonium
- -curonium
- balonium
- decamethonium
- diazonium
- euphonium
- fandemonium
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Questions about stramonium
- What does stramonium mean?
- Stramonium means the jimsonweed or thornapple plant, Datura stramonium.
- What is stramonium in Tamil?
- Stramonium in Tamil is முள் ஆப்பிள் இலை. See Stramonium meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is stramonium?
- Stramonium is a noun.
- What is the plural of stramonium?
- The plural of stramonium is stramoniums.
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