datura Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun thorn apple
    genus Datura.

WordNet

Da*tu"ra noun
Etymology
NL.; cf. Skr. dhattra, Per. & Ar. tatra, Tatla.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit. ✍ The commonest species are the thorn apple (D. stramonium), with a prickly capsule (see Illust. of capsule), white flowers and green stem, and D. tatula, with a purplish tinge of the stem and flowers. Both are narcotic and dangerously poisonous.

Webster 1913