Crossword-Solution: BELLADONNA
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| Belladonna | n. | An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade. |
| Belladonna | n. | A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the belladonna lily. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “BELLADONNA”
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| "Did __ cloak for his Dracula role?" | 1 answer |
| perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries | 1 answer |
| a herbaceous plant, very poisonous, with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries | 1 answer |
| Stevie Nicks '81 album | 1 answer |
| Plant with reddish flower and black berries. | 1 answer |
| Its leaves yield atropine | 1 answer |
| Eye-pupil dilator | 1 answer |
| Eye-pupil dilater | 1 answer |
| Eye dilator | 1 answer |
| AFRICAN lily | 6 answers |
| nightshade | 8 answers |
| Kind of lily | 8 answers |
| deadly nightshade | 12 answers |
| African plant | 31 answers |
| poisonous plant | 52 answers |
| FLOWER variety | 70 answers |
| herbaceous plant | 74 answers |
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Sentences with BELLADONNA (5)
The pupils were abnormally large, as though he were addicted to belladonna, but there was a glassy glitter about them which that drug does not produce.
And Maurice had really drained--to the dregs--the bottle of old hair tonics, dead catsups, syrups of undesirable preserves, condemned extracts of vanilla and lemon, decayed chocolate, ex-essence of beef, mixed dental preparations, aromatic spirits of ammonia, spirits of nitre, alcohol, arnica, quinine, ipecac, sal volatile, nux vomica and licorice water-- with traces of arsenic, belladonna and strychnine.
Carefully kept account books of her personal expenses were mixed up with billets dous, paints and pomades, moneylenders' circulars, belladonna and cantharides.
Bader has observed grave symptoms following the employment of a vaginal suppository containing three grains of the extract of belladonna.
Allie herself wasn’t in the room, but there were eight other women, and because Dolly had put belladonna in her eyes the night before to see how she would look, and as a result couldn’t see anything nearer than across the room, some one read the letter aloud to her, and the whole story is out.
Quotes with BELLADONNA (3)
Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:"1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and…
Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks, The lady of situations. Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel, And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card, Which is blank, is something he carries on his back, Which I am forbidden to see. I do not find The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.
Joe knew that for some, really for most, the derivations of belladonna that blurred their vision and caused their hearts to race would, as well, hasten their forgetting of detail. They would not recall, not readily, any sense of pain or shame or doubt or threat of danger. []There were always children to be used. Members were obliged to offer their children, although not necessarily every child in a family was used. Some were found to be not suited for the rigor. Some were lef…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1953–2012).