datura

See also: Datura

English

datura plant

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Noun

datura (plural daturas)

1. A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties. [from 16th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 5, member 1, subsection 5:

     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” [...].

   • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “The King’s Ankus”, in The Second Jungle Book, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 188:

     "Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "Suffice it that it was of the datura family which supplies deadly poisons as well as powerful medicines."

   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 37:

     Datura did grow in Haiti, three species, all of them introduced from the Old World.

   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 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

Translations

A plant of the genus Datura

• Azerbaijani: tatula, dəlibəng
• Bulgarian: татул (bg) m (tatul)
• Finnish: hulluruoho (fi)
• French: datura (fr) m
• German: Datura (de) f
• Greek: ντατούρα (el) f (ntatoúra), δατούρα (el) f (datoúra)

Anagrams

• autard

French

Etymology

• dature

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese, ultimately from Sanskrit धत्तूर (dhattūra). Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française states it comes from Arabic and ultimately from Persian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.ty.ʁa/

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Noun

datura m (plural daturas)

1. datura (Datura)

   Hypernym: solanacée

   Hyponyms: datura fastueux, datura sacré, dature inoffensive, métel, stramoine

2. (Réunion) Synonym of dature inoffensive (Datura innoxia)

Derived terms

• datura fastueux
• datura sacré

 

Further reading

• “datura” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “datura” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “datura” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “datura” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “datura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

datura f (plural dature)

1. thorn apple (of genus Datura)

Anagrams

• durata

Latin

Participle

datūra

1. inflection of datūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

datūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of datūrus

References

• datura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)