JIMSONWEED

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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; jimson weed; jimsonweed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("jimsonweed" is a kind of...):

thorn apple (any of several plants of the genus Datura)

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