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JIMSONWEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jimsonweed mean?
• JIMSONWEED (noun)
The noun JIMSONWEED has 1 sense:
1. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
Familiarity information: JIMSONWEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
apple of Peru; common thorn apple; Datura stramonium; Jamestown weed; jimson weed; jimsonweed
Hypernyms ("jimsonweed" is a kind of...):
thorn apple (any of several plants of the genus Datura)
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