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Jamestown weed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Jamestown weed has 1 sense
- jamestown weed(n = noun.plant) apple of peru, common thorn apple, datura stramonium, jimson weed, jimsonweed - intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits; Array is a kind of thorn apple
CIDE DICTIONARY
Jamestown weed,
The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium ), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown , Virginia. See Datura. [1913 Webster]
" This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum."
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