HENBANE
\hˈɛnbe͡ɪn], \hˈɛnbeɪn], \h_ˈɛ_n_b_eɪ_n]\
Definitions of HENBANE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.
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A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A plant which is a bane or poison to domestic fowls: the stinking night-shade, used in medicine for opium.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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