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Hyoscyamus   Listen
noun
Hyoscyamus  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.
2.
(Med.) The leaves of the black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectorial troubles.





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"Hyoscyamus" Quotes from Famous Books



... ivy berries have been is more inebriating, is not true; for that disturbance which it raiseth in those that drink it is not so properly called drunkenness as alienation of mind or madness, such as hyoscyamus and a thousand other things that set men beside themselves usually produce. The crookedness of the bough is no argument at all, for such violent and unnatural effects cannot be supposed to proceed from any natural quality or power. Now sticks are bent by the fire, because that draws the moisture, ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch


Words linked to "Hyoscyamus" :   black henbane, Egyptian henbane, potato family, Hyoscyamus niger, henbane, Hyoscyamus muticus, genus Hyoscyamus, Solanaceae


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