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Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
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jimsonweed
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits [syn: jimson weed , Jamestown weed , common thorn apple , apple of Peru , Datura stramonium ]
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A poisonous plant ''Datura stramonium'', in the nightshade (''Solanaceae'') family. A hallucinogen occasionally ingested by those looking for a cheap high.
Usage examples of jimsonweed.
Lee smeared his face and hands with jimsonweed ointment and smoked a succession of pungent cigars, which kept the worst at bay.
Calamity concocted a poultice made from boiled Jimsonweed she found near the creek that bordered the meadow.
Rolling plains of coral-green sage, mustard-yellow rabbit bush, jimsonweed with corpse-white flowers.
Every wild lilac and wild rose, every white sage and rank jimsonweed, every heliotrope and creosote bush: gathered them all up in their hot embrace and borne them into the hidden channel of Coldheart Canyon.