jamestown weed Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
jimsonweed; apple of Peru; jimson weed; common thorn apple; Datura stramonium.

WordNet

James"town` weed`

Definitions

(Bot.) The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. ✍ This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.

Webster 1913

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