Definitions for thorn-apple

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thorn-apple thorn apple

Spelling: [thawrn]

IPA: /θɔrn/

Thorn-Apple is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 789 anagrams from letters in thorn-apple (-aehlnopprt).

Definitions for thorn-apple

noun

1. 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.
2. the fruit of certain hawthorns of the genus Crataegus.

Origin of thorn-apple

First recorded in 1570-80

Examples for thorn-apple

With these words he went upward among the tree-tops; and the thorn apple pricked him.

The leaves of the coca, also of the thorn apple, are smoked or chewed by the South American Indian.

If food be mixed with the fruit of the thorn apple (Dathura) it causes intoxication.

An alkaloid obtained from common henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and also from the thorn apple (Datura stramonium).

This celebrated plant, commonly called the thorn apple, often grows on dunghills, and flowers in the month of July.

From the seeds of the thorn apple the Tenggerese make a sort of flour which is strongly narcotic in its effect.