How to Use henbane in a Sentence

henbane

noun
  • But now ethnobotanist Karsten Fatur says Vikings likely took henbane (below).
    National Geographic, 2020-02-11
  • Atropine and scopolamine, powerful hallucinogens, can be found in plants in the nightshade family, among them mandrake, henbane and thorn apple.
    Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 2023-04-06
  • Now an ethnobotanist is challenging that hypothesis, suggesting in a recent paper in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology that henbane is a more likely candidate.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2019-09-18
  • Now an ethnobotanist is challenging that hypothesis, suggesting in a recent paper in The Journal of Ethnopharmacology that henbane is a more likely candidate.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 2019-09-21

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