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☆ jim·son weed (jim′sən)

a poisonous annual weed (Datura stramonium) of the nightshade family, with foul-smelling leaves, prickly fruit, and white or purplish, trumpet-shaped flowers
also jimpson weed jimp′·son weed (jimp′-)

Etymology: altered < Jamestown weed, after Jamestown, Va.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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