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datura (medicine)


datura
<botany> A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.

The commonest species are the thorn apple (D. Stramonium), with a prickly capsule, white flowers and green stem, and D. Tatula, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous.

Origin: NL.; cf. Skr. Dhattra, Per. & Ar. Tatra, Tatla.

Source: Websters Dictionary


dun(1) (iou)



dun adjective.
[Old English dun(n) = Old Saxon dun date-brown, nut-brown, prob. rel. to Old Saxon dosan, Old High German tusin (cf. DUSK adjective).]
1. Of a dull or dingy brown colour, dull greyish-brown; spec. (of a horse) of a sandy grey colour with black legs, mane, and tail, and usu. a dark dorsal stripe. OE.
Shakespeare Sonnets If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun.
2. Dark, dusky; murky; gloomy. poet. ME.
William Collins Dun Night has veil'd the solemn view.
Special collocations & comb.: dun-bar a noctuid moth, Cosmia trapezina, with two grey-brown bands on the forewing. dun-bird the pochard. dun-diver a female or immature goosander or merganser.
dunness [-n-n-] noun E17.
dunnish adjective rather dun or dusky E16.