datura
/dətˈʊɹə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.15 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties.
Example Sentences
- "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” [...]."
- ""Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India."
- ""Suffice it that it was of the datura family which supplies deadly poisons as well as powerful medicines.""
- "Datura did grow in Haiti, three species, all of them introduced from the Old World."
- "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."
Etymology
From the genus name.