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1.
Composition of Scientific Words: A Manual of Methods and a Lexicon of Materials for the Practice of Logotechnics
Contributors:
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press 1956 (Revised edition)
Subjects:
English Language--Word Formation--Glossaries, Vocabularies, Etc
English Language--Foreign Elements--Greek
English Language--Foreign Elements--Latin
Science--Terminology
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...apollinaria; apollinaris, f. a kind of nightshade, henbane:NL. atropa, f. a genus of the nightshade family: Atropa belladonna (belladonnaU...NL. capsicum, n. a genus of the nightshade family: Capsicum frutescens (redpepper...
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Spring Flora of Missouri
Contributors:
Publisher:
Missouri Botanical Garden 1940
Subjects:
Botany--Missouri
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...00ADcur, then the stems prickly1. NIGHTSHADE (Solanum)4. Plants slightly...GROUND CHERRY (Physalis)1. NIGHTSHADE (Solanum)Low, or occasionally...divided1. BITTERSWEET, CLIMBING NIGHTSHADE (S. Dulcamara)3. Flowers...
4.
Romantic Medicine and John Keats
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1991
Subjects:
Medicine--England--History--19th Century
Keats, John, 1795-1821--Knowledge--Medicine
Medicine in Literature
Romanticism--England
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...scene."31Orfila classified deadly nightshade among the most severe narcotico-acridsfor...cerebro-nervoussystem. Wolfsbane and nightshade grow side by side in the homeopathic...thy pale forehead to be kiss'd / By nightshade, ruby grape ofProserpine," Keats...
5.
Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Contested Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies, and Contemporary Pagans
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Publisher:
Routledge 2003
Subjects:
Shamanism
New Age Movement
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...might be finds of other entheogens in future. A likely candidate is the nightshade family, perhaps deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) or black nightshade (Solanum nigrum), the former being rather more poisonous...
6.
The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants
Contributors:
Publisher:
Methuen 1963
Subjects:
Ecology
Biogeography
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...further round theseason. Previously the nightshade had been looked upon as a detrimentalweed...00ADdental removal of most of the nightshade plants late in July by zealous,but...amount ofartificial infesting of the nightshade plants, as also of the citrus trees...
7.
The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period
Contributors:
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press 2007
Subjects:
English Literature--19th Century--History and Criticism
Blindness In Literature
Blind In Literature
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...stanza – 'wolf's-bane', 'nightshade'and 'yew-berries' – would...suggest poetic development. Thus, nightshade was, accord­ing to Culpeper...00ADcholy.63 Furthermore, deadly nightshade carried associations of Lethe inone...
8.
The World of Plant Life
Contributors:
Publisher:
Macmillan 1939
Subjects:
Botany--United States
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...0028Belladonna, JimsonWeed, Deadly Nightshade, Tobacco) and the edible portions...intropical America. Climbing or Bittersweet Nightshade is a European vine, naturalizedin our...The fruits arered berries. Deadly Nightshade is a ubiquitous weed, originally native...
9.
Whispers in the Pines: A Naturalist in the Northeast
Contributors:
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press 2006
Subjects:
Burger, Joanna
Natural History--Northeastern States--Anecdotes
Pine--Ecology--Northeastern States--Anecdotes
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...Shakers' five best-sellers, Deadly Nightshade and Dande­lion, could be found...sand was dis­turbed. Deadly Nightshade, which is extremely poisonous, was...Belladonna, another name for Deadly Nightshade,was used by Venetian ladies to dilate...
10.
Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research
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Publisher:
Amsterdam University Press 2005
Subjects:
Painting, Dutch
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...198It seems likely therefore that the nightshade in the Child's hand signifies that...the herbs, together with the black nightshade in the Child's hand, contain asymbolic...Plantago) [FIG. 70].Like black nightshade, herb robert was considered a remedy...
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