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单词 belladonna
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belladonnan.

Brit. /ˌbɛləˈdɒnə/, U.S. /ˌbɛləˈdɑnə/
Etymology: modern Latin; < Italian bella donna, lit. ‘fair lady,’ name given in Italy to the plant, on uncertain grounds. (The usual statement, current since the time of Ray and Tournefort, is given in quot. 1758 at sense 1; a different account is in quot. 1851 at sense 1. A well-known property of the juice is to enlarge the pupil of the eye.)
1. Botany. The specific name of the Deadly Nightshade or Dwale ( Atropa belladonna), occasionally used as English.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > poisonous bush or tree > [noun] > deadly nightshade
nightshadeOE
dwale14..
garden nightshade1576
deadly nightshade1578
sleeping nightshade1578
belladonna1597
death's herb1598
sleepy nightshade1611
banewort1861
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 270 In English Dwale or sleeping Nightshade: the Venetians and Italians call it Bella dona.
1758 R. Pultney in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 62 Bella-donna is the name, which the Italians, and particularly the Venetians, apply to this plant; and Mr. Ray observes, that it is so called because the Italian ladies make a cosmetic from the juice.
1851 E. Hamilton Flora Homœopath. iii. 64 Belladonna, because it was employed by Leucota, a famous poisoner of Italy, to destroy the beautiful women.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 488 Belladonna is cultivated for medicinal use at Hitchin.
2. Medicine. The name, in the pharmacopœia, of the leaves and root of this plant, and of the drug thence prepared, the active principle of which is the alkaloid atropine.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > alkaloids
belladonna1788
bebeerine1851
sparteine1851
physostigmine1864
bebeeria1874
pilocarpine1875
hydrastine1876
atropine1877
eserine1879
homatropine1880
ergocryptine1944
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific plant
hyssopc1000
sionc1000
tunhoofc1000
poppyOE
camomilea1300
orobusa1398
tithymala1400
tutsana1400
Thapsiac1400
melissa?a1425
hallelujahc1425
turmeric1538
succory1541
balin1546
English treacle1548
treacle mustard1548
rhabarb1558
Thlaspi1562
treacle clover1562
holy herb1567
lungwort1578
solanum1578
lightwort1587
neezing wort1591
Alexander's Foot1597
burst-wort1597
symphonia1597
wound-herb1597
leper's herb1600
all bones1633
schoenanth1633
nip1651
wound-shrub1659
hermodact1678
jusquiam1727
Algerian tea1728
Australian tea1728
strongback1739
silphium1753
belladonna1788
foxglove1801
ledum1822
yercum1826
lungs of oak1856
strong man's weed1864
conium1866
short-long1871
fever grass1875
1788 Edinb. New Dispensatory (1791) ii. 145 The belladonna taken internally has been highly recommended in cancer.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 109 Belladonna is said by homœopathists to act as a preventative of scarlet fever.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 250 Belladonna is not a hypnotic.

Compounds

C1. attributive.
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1856 Med. Times & Gaz. XIII. 513 Case of poisoning from the application of belladonna plaster to the skin.
1869 G. Lawson Dis. Eye iv. 126 A fold of lint..kept moist with..the belladonna lotion.
1885 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 486/2 The clinical history of a case of belladonna poisoning.
1885 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 486/2 The patient..had eaten..about thirty belladonna berries.
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. I Belladonna-leaves... B. plaster.
1896 Daily News 10 Sept. 2/6 Belladonna poisoning.
1896 Daily News 10 Sept. 2/6 The belladonna liniment.
1968 Times 3 Dec. 10/8 Drugs of the belladonna group.
C2.
belladonna lily n. Amaryllis Belladonna, a native of the Cape of Good Hope.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > amaryllis
lily daffodil1733
belladonna lily1734
lily asphodel1753
Mexican lily1760
amaryllis1785
1734 P. Miller Gardeners Kalendar (ed. 3) 140 The roots of the Guernsey and Belladonna Lillies.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxi. 499 The belladonna is a yet more handsome lily.
1866 T. Moore in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 48 The name Belladonna Lily was given..from the charmingly blended red and white of the perianth, resembling the complexion of a beautiful woman.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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