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Definition of Jimsonweed

1. Noun. Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits.

Definition of Jimsonweed

1. Noun. (context: botany US) A poisonous plant ''Datura stramonium'', in the nightshade (''Solanaceae'') family. A hallucinogen occasionally ingested by those looking for a cheap high. ¹

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Definition of Jimsonweed

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jimsonweed

Literary usage of Jimsonweed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1904)
"1900, August 15, one on jimsonweed flower ; 1901, September 5, one on rose, ... In 1900 moths were taken on jimsonweed flowers July 17, August 14, ..."

2. A Mission Record of the California Indians: From a Manuscript in the by Alfred Louis Kroeber, José Francisco de Paula Señán, Vicente Francisco Sarría (1910)
"Boys were put through the rather violent kusi or jimsonweed initiation into manhood.291 At ... The girls escaped the administration of the jimsonweed drug, ..."

3. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Board of Education, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education (1878)
"Name the order of plants to which atropa, or deadly nightshade; hyoscyamus, or henbane; the petunia; stramonium, or jimsonweed ; and nicotiana, ..."

4. The Craftsman by Gustav Stickley (1907)
"Farmers are struggling against riotous weeds like the mustards, jimsonweed, tansy, dandelion, burdock and many others, while millions of dollars worth are ..."

5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... Datura stramonium L. jimsonweed Herbaceous annual Cultivated fields, roadsides and waste ground. Designated as a noxious weed in PA. ..."

6. Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North by Sue Ann Prince (2003)
"BDC jimsonweed Flower (Datura stramonium), nd Watercolor and graphite, 8 7/8 xn 1/4 in. BDC Lily Flower (family Liliaceae), possibly from William Hamilton's ..."

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