Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Jamestown-weed — var.jimsonweed … Useful english dictionary
Jamestown weed — noun intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet shaped flowers and prickly fruits • Syn: ↑jimsonweed, ↑jimson weed, ↑common thorn apple, ↑apple of Peru, ↑Datura stramonium •… … Useful english dictionary
Jamestown weed — SYN: Datura stramonium. * * * James·town weed jāmz .tau̇n n JIMSONWEED … Medical dictionary
jamestown weed — Thorn apple, stramonium, stramony, jimson, apple peru (Datura stramonium) … New dictionary of synonyms
jim|son-weed — or Jim|son weed «JIHM suhn», a tall, coarse, bad smelling weed with large, white or violet, funnel shaped flowers and poisonous, narcotic leaves and seeds; thorn apple; stramonium. It belongs to the nightshade family. ╂[American English,… … Useful english dictionary
Jim|son weed — or Jim|son weed «JIHM suhn», a tall, coarse, bad smelling weed with large, white or violet, funnel shaped flowers and poisonous, narcotic leaves and seeds; thorn apple; stramonium. It belongs to the nightshade family. ╂[American English,… … Useful english dictionary
jim|son|weed — jim|son weed or Jim|son weed «JIHM suhn», a tall, coarse, bad smelling weed with large, white or violet, funnel shaped flowers and poisonous, narcotic leaves and seeds; thorn apple; stramonium. It belongs to the nightshade family. ╂[American… … Useful english dictionary
jim|son weed — or Jim|son weed «JIHM suhn», a tall, coarse, bad smelling weed with large, white or violet, funnel shaped flowers and poisonous, narcotic leaves and seeds; thorn apple; stramonium. It belongs to the nightshade family. ╂[American English,… … Useful english dictionary
jimson weed — /jim seuhn/ a coarse, rank smelling weed, Datura stramonium, of the nightshade family, having oaklike, poisonous leaves and tubular white or lavender flowers. Also, jimpson weed /jimp seuhn/, Jimson weed. [1805 15, Amer.; var. of JAMESTOWN WEED,… … Universalium
jimson weed — ☆ jimson weed [jimp′sənjim′sən ] n. [altered < Jamestown weed, after JAMESTOWN, Va.] a poisonous annual weed (Datura stramonium) of the nightshade family, with foul smelling leaves, prickly fruit, and white or purplish, trumpet shaped flowers … English World dictionary
