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Datura

noun

Thorn apple. Synonym: genus Datura.

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... than that gold snow Jove rained on Rhodes, The townsmen walked by twos and threes, and talked, Drinking the blackness in default of air— A busy human sense beneath my feet: While in and out the terrace-plants, and round One branch of tall datura, waxed and waned The lamp-fly lured there, wanting ...

— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp

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... pleasaunce, with fountain and sundial, espaliered orange boughs, and ancient rose-trees overhanging paved walks, gay parterres, and avenues of myrtle or heliotrope. Flowers are perennial even on these airy heights, and dense hedges of datura, with long white bells drooping in myriads over the pointed foliage, transform each narrow lane into a vista of enchantment. Eastern Java spreads map-like beneath the overhanging precipice, the blue strait of Madoera curving between ...

— Through the Malay Archipelago • Emily Richings

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Words linked to "Datura" : thorn apple, genus Datura, potato family, Solanaceae, family Solanaceae, asterid dicot genus