# datura
## English

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### Etymology

From the genus name.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

### Noun

datura (plural daturas)
* 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: […] 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.

#### Derived terms

* daturism

#### Related terms

* daturametelin
* datumetine
* datumetixone
* daturilin
* daturilinol

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* autard

## French
### Alternative forms

* 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: /da.ty.ʁa/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

datura m (plural daturas)
* datura (Datura)
    Hypernym: solanacée
    Hyponyms: datura fastueux, datura sacré, dature inoffensive, métel, stramoine
* (Réunion) Synonym of dature inoffensive (Datura innoxia)

#### Derived terms

* datura fastueux
* datura sacré

### References

* 1 2 “datura” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
* 1 2 “datura” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
* 1 2 “datura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* ↑ “datura” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
* ↑ Dominique Martiré (2021) Faune et flore de La Réunion, Paris: Delachaux et Niestlé, →ISBN, p. 136.

### 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)
* thorn apple (of genus Datura)

### Anagrams

* durata

## Latin
### Participle

datūra
* inflection of datūrus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

datūrā
* 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)