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Jimson weed

noun
1.
Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits.  Synonyms: apple of Peru, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimsonweed.






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"Jimson weed" Quotes from Famous Books



... observed the regularity of arrangement in the twigs and branches of trees. Now pull up the roots of a plant, as, for example, sheep sorrel, Jimson weed, or some other plant. Note the branching of the roots. In these there is no such regularity as is seen in the twig. Trace the rootlets to their finest tips. How small, slender, and delicate they are! Still we do not see the finest of them, for in taking ...
— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett



Words linked to "Jimson weed" :   thorn apple



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