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单词 thorn-apple
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thorn-applen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈthorn-ˌapple.
The common name of Datura Stramonium, N.O. Solanaceæ (see datura n.), a coarse annual plant bearing large funnel-shaped white flowers, succeeded by large four-celled capsules covered with prickly spines; also the capsule or fruit itself. Also formerly called thorny apple.
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thorn-apple1578
thorny apple1578
floripondio1604
stramonium1682
burn-weed1756
devil's apple1759
stinkweed1804
jimsonweed1812
Brugmansia1822
stramony1842
angel's trumpet1866
metel1887
mad-apple1892
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxxvii. 440 Fruite, round as an apple.., beset rounde about with many prickley thornes, and therefore they call it Thorne apple.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana ii. ii. 877/2 Fresh Leaves of Strammonium bearing Thorn Apples.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 619 The Thorn-apple..is a violent narcotic when taken internally.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 415 Crenation of the red-corpuscles, giving rise to the so-called mulberry and thorn~apple forms.
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