JIMSON WEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jimson weed mean? 

• JIMSON WEED (noun)
  The noun JIMSON WEED 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: JIMSON WEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JIMSON WEED (noun)

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 ("jimson weed" is a kind of...):

thorn apple (any of several plants of the genus Datura)