stramonium
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A poisonous annual flowering plant of the nightshade family (Datura stramonium), widely naturalized across temperate and subtropical regions, characterized by large white or pale purple trumpet-shaped blossoms that open at night and spiny egg-shaped seed capsules.
"The wild stramonium growing along the roadside displayed large, trumpet-shaped white flowers that opened at dusk."
A medicinal preparation made from the dried leaves and flowering tops of Datura stramonium, containing tropane alkaloids such as atropine and scopolamine and historically smoked or inhaled to relieve asthma spasms.
"In nineteenth-century medicine, physicians frequently prescribed stramonium cigarettes to ease acute asthma attacks."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from New Latin stramonium, likely adapted from Post-Classical Latin stramonia or Tartar turman, referring to a plant used to treat horses.
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