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Definition of thorn apple in English: thorn applenoun 1A poisonous datura with large trumpet-shaped white flowers and toothed leaves, which has become a weed of waste ground in many countries. Datura stramonium, family Solanaceae Also called jimson weed in North America Example sentencesExamples - Recipes of love stimulants frequently contained such plants, especially henbane, mandrake, and in later times thorn apple.
- Important are the accounts of opium, aconite, hemlock, and the thorn apple, showing careful study of widely known poisons.
- 1.1 The prickly fruit of the thorn apple, which resembles that of a horse chestnut.
Example sentencesExamples - ‘As well as being a hallucinogenic,’ says Phillips, ‘the thorn apple has a fiery, hot taste and causes sweating and burning sensations throughout the body’.
Definition of thorn apple in US English: thorn applenounˈTHôrn ˌapəl another term for jimson weed Example sentencesExamples - Important are the accounts of opium, aconite, hemlock, and the thorn apple, showing careful study of widely known poisons.
- Recipes of love stimulants frequently contained such plants, especially henbane, mandrake, and in later times thorn apple.
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