The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jimson weed \Jim"son weed`\ See Jamestown weed. [Local, U.S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also jimsonweed, 1812, American English, shortening of Jamestown-weed (1680s), from Jamestown, Virginia colony, where it was discovered by Europeans (1676), when British soldiers mistook it for an edible plant and subsequently hallucinated for 11 days.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of jimsonweed English)
WordNet
n. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits [syn: jimsonweed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru, Datura stramonium]
Wikipedia
Jimson Weed is an oil on linen painting by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe from 1936, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. It depicts four large blossoms of jimson weed, or datura.
Usage examples of "jimson weed".
I found some Jimson weed and cut a few leaves to put in my moccasins.
It was open at the back, upon a mass of jimson weed in savage white-and-lavender bloom.
Blondel winced at the sound of untrimmed jimson weed whipping at the paint job.
Angel's trumpet (also called datura, jimson weed, and thorn apple) has large, white, bell-shaped leaves.
I parked across the street from the house, in front of an empty lot full of parched jimson weed and brambles as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher.