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henbane

/hen-beyn/US // ˈhɛnˌbeɪn //UK // (ˈhɛnˌbeɪn) //

鸡血石,鸡血藤,鸡精

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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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