Translation for "thorn-apple" to spanish
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She might have made a marmalade of the lovely thorn apple or the baneberry, she might have tossed the salad with Holcus lanatus, called velvet grass, and rich in hydrocyanic acid.
Podría haber hecho una mermelada de estramonio o de hierba de San Cristóbal, podría haber mezclado en la ensalada Holcus lanatus, llamado heno blanco, muy rico en ácido cianhídrico.
Then they shuffled one by one into his office and came out again murmuring under their breath. The boy was usually at the end of the line and did not return home till the late afternoon, bringing stramonium—the poisonous powder of the thorn apple—and niter paper, the dubious medicines prescribed to asthma patients in those days.
El turno del niño no llegaba casi nunca hasta que no quedaba allí nadie, y cuando volvía a casa con los polvos tóxicos de estramonio y el nitrato —los cuestionables remedios que ofrecían entonces a los asmáticos—, hacía ya rato que había pasado el mediodía.
There came a bitter scent into the air, as of sweet wine turning to vinegar, and there was a hysteric brilliance flourished by the trees in town as well as those in the woods beyond, while along the roads between were the intemperate displays of thorn apple, sumac, and towering sunflowers that nodded behind crooked roadside fences.
Llegaba un aroma amargo en el aire, como un vino dulce avinagrado, y se observaba un fulgor histérico que manaba de los árboles de la ciudad y del bosque a las afueras, al tiempo que junto a las carreteras se observaba un exagerado despliegue de estramonio, zumaque y gigantescos girasoles cabeceando detrás de las vallas torcidas que flanqueaban la carretera.
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