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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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Jamestown weed 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]