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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



... our hero, though tough to reproof, was keenly sensitive to ridicule—a jimson weed to that, a snap dragon to this. Having discovered his weakness, his mother was much in the habit of playing upon it, as the only means of persuasion or dissuasion within her command which was likely to make any impression ...
— The Red Moccasins - A Story • Morrison Heady


Words linked to "Jimson weed" :   jimsonweed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, thorn apple


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