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Stinkweed

Stinkweed \Stink"weed`\, n. (Bot.) Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stinkweed

1793, from stink + weed (n.).

Wiktionary
stinkweed

n. 1 tree of heaven#English (''Ailanthus altissima''). 2 jimson weed#English (''Datura stramonium''). 3 Any other noxious plant.

WordNet
stinkweed

n. foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America [syn: field pennycress, French weed, fanweed, penny grass, mithridate mustard, Thlaspi arvense]

Wikipedia
Stinkweed

Stinkweed is a common name for several noxiously scented plants, and may refer to:

  • Ailanthus altissima (stinkweed tree)
  • Artemisia tilesii, known as stinkweed in Alaska
  • Cleomella
  • Datura stramonium (jimson weed)
  • Diplotaxis muralis, known as stinkweed in the United Kingdom
  • Thlaspi arvense (field pennycress)
  • Cannabis indica (Indian hemp)

Usage examples of "stinkweed".

But due to a severe blight on our stinkweed crop, which as you know is our staple diet, our people are becoming severely malnourished.

Now, as a result of the factors I have just presented to you, we find your bottom land by our northern borders to be extremely rich in nutrients that the stinkweed plant needs to flourish, and preliminary experimental results indicate that stinkweed plants grown in this environment are completely immune to the blight that is wiping out our crop.

The man just sat, frozen beside her, as the odious scent of the plant Ducky had called stinkweed began to waft out into the room around them.

Damn, where she had come up with that stinkweed was a question he would like answered.

Ducky had warned her the dog had taken up position there since the little stinkweed incident.

Now that she smelled like stinkweed and posies, now she was eager to be helpful?

Balthamel thrashed, and a shoot of stinkweed ripped open his carapace, lichens dug in their roots and split tiny cracks across the leather of his face, nettles broke the eyes of his mask, deathshead mushrooms tore open the mouth.

Balthamel thrashed, and a shoot of stinkweed ripped open his carapace, lichens dug in their roots and split tiny cracks across the leather of his face, nettles broke the eyes of his mask, deaths-head mushrooms tore open the mouth.

If they could hunt like animals, then he was in trouble whatever he did short of rolling in mud and applying stinkweed, and he was not prepared for that.

Also, they would no longer need to be living in an area that would help the stinkweeds grow.

It was really just their desire to grow more stinkweeds, and their incapability to do so in their soil.

Stinkfoots were to grow carrots instead of stinkweeds for a year, they could go back to stinkweeds next year?

When he finally paddled his way to shore through pond scum and stinkweeds, he gave her the finger.

Now that she smelled like stinkweed and posies, now she was eager to be helpful?

Datura stramonium, Jamestown Weed, Stinkweed, or Apple of Peru has narcotic, anodyne leaves and seeds.