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JAMESTOWN WEED
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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; jimson weed; jimsonweed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Jamestown weed" is a kind of...):
thorn apple (any of several plants of the genus Datura)