stramonium

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noun

The jimsonweed or thornapple plant, Datura stramonium.

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Meanings

nounstramonium (countable and uncountable, plural stramoniums or stramonia)

plural stramoniums · plural stramonia

  1. countableuncountableThe jimsonweed or thornapple plant, Datura stramonium.

    Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity.

    1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229
  2. countableuncountableA narcotic drug obtained from the dried leaves of this plant.

Origin

  1. New Latinstramonium
  2. Englishstramonium

From New Latin stramonium, stramonia (attested since the 1540s), of unknown origin. (Compare Italian stramonio, attested since at least the 1560s.) The English word is attested since the 1660s. Some older dictionaries speculated that stramonium, as well as Russian дурма́н (durmán), might derive from a Turkic source like Tatar *turman (“medicine for horses”), but the Russian word is now thought to be an internal (native) formation, and the Tatar word, properly дәрман (därman, “remedy”), derives from Persian.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with stramonium

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APA

stramonium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stramonium

MLA

“stramonium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stramonium. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stramonium,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stramonium.

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