a poisonous solanaceous European plant, Hyoscyamus niger, with sticky hairy leaves and funnel-shaped greenish flowers: yields the drug hyoscyamine
henbane in American English
(ˈhɛnˌbeɪn)
noun
a coarse, hairy, foul-smelling, poisonous plant (Hyoscyamus niger) of the nightshade family: it is used in medicine as a source of hyoscyamine and scopolamine
Word origin
ME: see hen & bane
Examples of 'henbane' in a sentence
henbane
He was gaping at Joanna as if she were an apparition, one to be warded off with incantations and henbane.