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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



... reluctant bits of summer passed, and hints of the coming winter began to appear The yellow glory of the goldenrod, and the gorgeous banks of color on sunflower flats faded to earthy russet and brown; the white cups of the Jimson weed were broken and lost; the dainty pepper-grass, the thin-leafed grama-grass, and the heavier bladed bear-grass of the great pasture lands were dry and tawny; and the broom-weed that had tufted the rolling ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright



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