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jimsonweed

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.

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jimsonweed

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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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.