What is "jimson"

Usage examples of "jimson".

If she were seen holding a stem of beardtongue blossoms to admire their color or stooping to touch the spikes of jimson leaves, some would solemnly call her mazed in the head not to know beardtongue when she saw it, and others would wonder, grinning, was she so wit-scoured as perhaps to eat jimson?

For example, there is some evidence that atropine-one of the chief active ingredients in hemlock, foxglove, deadly nightshade, and jimson weed-induces the illusion of flying.

Jimson weed (Datura stramonium): variety of thorn apple plant, found in N.

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.

There was no witchgrass, jimson, pikeweed, whore's hair, or poke salad.