THORN APPLE Definition & Meaning

thorn apple

[thawrn]

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noun

any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
the fruit of certain hawthorns of the genus Crataegus.

thorn apple

noun

US and Canadian name: jimson weed.��a poisonous solanaceous plant, Datura stramonium, of the N hemisphere, having white funnel-shaped flowers and spiny capsule fruits See also stramonium
any other plant of the genus Datura
the fruit of certain types of hawthorn

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of thorn apple¹

First recorded in 1570–80

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Atropine and scopolamine, powerful hallucinogens, can be found in plants in the nightshade family, among them mandrake, henbane and thorn apple.

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The plant that caused a baby spinach recall in Australia was thorn apple, a nightshade, The Guardian reports.

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A weed invasion took place in London, with bracken carpeting the nave of St. James and thorn apples growing in the cellars of Cheapside.

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Jimsonweed, a k a Jamestown weed, mad apple, devil’s trumpet, locoweed, stinkwort or thorn apple, is a strikingly gothic-looking plant with seedpods that could have inspired the creator of “Little Shop of Horrors.”

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I love the taste of thorn apples and sweet acorns and sumac and choke-cherries and all the wild things we used to find on the road to school.

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