henbane
/hen-beyn/US // ˈhɛnˌbeɪn //UK // (ˈhɛnˌbeɪn) //
鸡血石,鸡血藤,鸡精
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an Old World plant, Hyoscyamus niger, of the nightshade family, having sticky, hairy fetid foliage and greenish-yellow flowers, and possessing narcotic and poisonous properties especially destructive to domestic fowls.
Examples
The clear, colorless distillate had an alkaline reaction, and an odor resembling henbane or hemlock.
He prepared a boiled oil of hyoscyamus, or henbane, in the usual way, with common oil.
Small doses of tincture of henbane have also often a like effect.
Here he found Henbane Dwining, on whom it was his hard fate to depend for consolation in both respects.
"Nay, it is only worthy Master Henbane Dwining," answered one of the sibyls.
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