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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
jimson-weed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (
Datura stramonium ), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. Seedatura .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
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