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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jamestown weed \James"town` weed`\ (Bot.) The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. [1913 Webster] Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stramonium \Stra*mo"ni*um\, n. [NL.; Cf. F. stramoine.] (Bot.) A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Atropine \At"ro*pine\, n. [Gr. ? inflexible; hence ? ?, one of the three Parc[ae]; 'a priv. + ? to turn.] (Chem.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Datura stramonium n 1: intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits [syn: jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru, Datura stramonium]