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στρύχνον , τό (also στρύχνος, ὁ, v. infr.), name of various plants:
1. ς. ἁλικάκκαβον, winter cherry, Physalis Alkekengi, Dsc. 4.71, Plin.HN21.177.
2. ς. κηπαῖον, hound's berry, Solanum nigrum, Dsc.4.70; v.l. στρύχνος, ὁ, and so Thphr.HP7.15.4.
3. ς. μανικόν （στρύχνος μανικός ib.9.11.6), thorn-apple, Datura Stramonium, Dsc.4.73.
4. ς. ὑπνωτικόν （“στρύχνος ὑπνώδης” Thphr.HP9.11.5), sleepy nightshade, Withania somnifera, Dsc.4.72 (στρύχνος is f.l. for στρίφνος in LXX Jb.20.18, and στρύχνον for τρύχνον in Nic.Th. 878).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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