jamestown : Idioms & Phrases

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jamestown weed

  • noun intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
    jimsonweed; apple of Peru; jimson weed; common thorn apple; Datura stramonium.
WordNet
James"town` weed`
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. ✍ This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.
Webster 1913