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Definitions: Belladonna |
BelladonnaNoun1. Perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine. 2. An alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna herb that is used medicinally. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "belladonna" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
Etymology: Belladonna \Bel`la*don"na\, noun. [Italian expression, literally fine lady; bella beautiful donna lady.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | Strategic moves will bring success in commercial circles. Women will find rivals in society; vain and fruitless efforts will be made for places in men's affections. Taking it, denotes misery and failure to meet past debts. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Plant from the leaves and roots of which may be obtained the poisonous alkaloid precursors of various medically useful narcotics, chief among which is atropine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A species of very poisonous Solanaceous plants yielding atropine (hyoscyamine), scopolamine, and other belladonna alkaloids, used to block the muscarinic autonomic nervous system. (references) |
Literature | Belladonna (Italian, beautiful lady ). This name was given to the Deadly Nightshade, from a practice once common among ladies of touching their eyes with it to make the pupils large and lustrous. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: BelladonnaSynonym: deadly nightshade (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite; banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish; Upas tree. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Belladonna |
| English words defined with "belladonna": Amaryllis belladonna, Atropa, Atropa belladonna, Atropism ♦ belladonna lily ♦ Deadly nightshade, Death's-herb, Deliriant, Dwale ♦ genus Atropa. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "belladonna": BELLADONNA. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Belladonna" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (belladonna), Dutch (belladonna), German (belladonna), Hungarian (belladonna), Italian (belladonna, deadly nightshade), Swedish (banewort, belladonna, deadly nightshade), Turkish (belladonna). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Kanashima no Belladonna (1973) Belladonna (1989) | |
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| "Belladonna" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 51.11% of the time. "Belladonna" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 51.11% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 48.89% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "belladonna": A belladonna ♦ Amaryllis belladonna ♦ Atropa Belladonna ♦ Belladonna Alkaloids ♦ belladonna lily. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaan | belladonna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | البلادونة نبات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | беладона (deadly nightshade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 茄. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rulík. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | belladonna (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel), galnebaer (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | belladonna (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | beladono. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | belladonna (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel), lemmonmarja (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | belladone (belladona). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tollkirsche (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel, nightshade), Belladonna (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στρύχνοσ (bittersweet, nightshade), μπελαντόννα, μανδραγόρας (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel, mandragora, mandrake), άτροπος η ευθαλεία (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | belladonna, nadragulya (deadly nightshade, mandrake, nightshade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | belladonna (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 曼 沙華 (cluster amaryllis, cluster belladonna, manjusaka, red spider lily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ま"じゅしゃ' (cluster amaryllis, cluster belladonna, manjusaka, red spider lily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lus y vaaish (deadly nightshade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elladonnabay beladona (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) красавка (deadly nightshade). (various references) beladona. (various references) belladona (belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel, nightshade). (various references) belladonna (banewort, belladona, deadly nightshade, great morel). (various references) belladonna, güzelavratotu. (various references) беладона (great morel). (various references) cây c dược (dwale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Atropa belladonna, Atropa bella-donna. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "belladonna": belladonnas. (additional references) | |
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"Belladonna" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beladonna, belladona, Belladonnae, Bellatini, Billardon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "belladonna" (pronounced 'Bel`la*don"na'): Abuna, Achatina, Alcanna, Alhenna, Alumna, Amphirhina, Amphisbaena, Angina, Anna, Anona, Antenna, arena, Avena, Avifauna, Banana, Becuna, Bellona, Carina, Casuarina, Catena, Cavatina, Concertina, Coquina, Cromorna, Curtana, Czarevna, Czarina, Damiana, DIANA, Discina, Diurna, Donna, Dracaena, Duenna, Echidna, Erythrina, Etna, Farina, Fauna, Galena, Gehenna, Gena, Globigerina, Glucina, Guana, Guna, Haematophlina, Hemina, henna, Hosanna. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-l-l-n-n-o" | |
-2 letters: ballonne, loanable. | |
-3 letters: abalone, abandon, abollae, ballade, balneal. | |
-4 letters: abolla, albedo, anneal, anodal, ballad, balled, ballon, banned, blonde, bolled, doable, loaned. | |
-5 letters: abode, adobe, aland, alane, aldol, allod, alone, annal, anode, anole, baaed, baled, banal, baned, beano, blade, bland, blend, blond, boned, bonne, dobla, donna, donne, eland, label, laden, ladle, llano, lobed, loden, naled. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-l-l-n-n-o" | |
+1 letter: belladonnas. | |
+2 letters: cannonballed. | |
+3 letters: nondialyzable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 6C 6C 61 64 6F 6E 6E 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-.. .-.. .- -.. --- -. -. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100001 01100100 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e l l a d o n n a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 006C 006C 0061 0064 006F 006E 006E 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36717878677081808067 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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