Editing Atropos (section)

==Namesake==
* [[Atropine]], a tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic medication
* ''[[273 Atropos]]'', a main-belt asteroid.
* The scientific name of a [[venomous snake]], ''[[Bitis atropos]]'', refers to Atropos.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Atropos", p. 12).</ref>
* The African Death's-head hawkmoth, ''[[Acherontia atropos]]'', also has a species name which references Atropos.
The genus of the deadly nightshade, ''[[Atropa belladonna]]'', was named after Atropos by [[Carolus Linnaeus]] because of the plant's poisonous properties.