belladonna

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bel=la=don=na

CIDE DICTIONARY

belladonna, n. [It., literally fine lady; bella beautiful + donna lady.].

 An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

belladonna, n.
1 Bot. a poisonous plant, Atropa belladonna, with purple flowers and purple-black berries. Also called deadly nightshade.
2 Med. a drug prepared from this.

Idiom

belladonna lily a S. African amaryllis with white or pink flowers, Amaryllis belladonna.

Etymology

mod.L f. It., = fair lady, perh. from its use as a cosmetic

DEVIL DICTIONARY

belladonna

n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

THESAURUS

belladonna

DET, DMT, Indian hemp, LSD, THC, bhang, cannabis, castor-oil plant, deadly nightshade, death camas, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, ergot, foxglove, ganja, hallucinogens, hashish, hemlock, hemp, henbane, horsetail, hyoscyamus, jimsonweed, marijuana, mayapple, mescal, mescal bean, mescaline, monkshood, morning glory seeds, peyote, poison ivy, poison parsley, poison sumac, pokeweed, psilocin, psilocybin, stramonium

ROGET THESAURUS

belladonna

Bane

N bane, curse, evil, hurtfulness, painfulness, scourge, damnosa hereditas, white elephant, sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle, poison, toxin, teratogen, leaven, virus venom, arsenic, antimony, tartar emetic, strychnine, nicotine, miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas, pest, Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid, bichloride of mercury, carbonic acid, carbonic gas, choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp, hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane, hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite, banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish, Upas tree, Toxline (online), rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew, dry rot, canker, cankerworm, cancer, torpedo, viper, demon, toxicology, baneful, poisonous, phr, bibere venenum in auro, Contingent Subservience.