a poisonous annual weed (Datura stramonium) of the nightshade family, with foul-smelling leaves, prickly fruit, and white or purplish, trumpet-shaped flowers
also jimp′son weed
Origin of jimson weed
altered from Jamestown weed, after Jamestown, Va.jimson weed
jim·son weed jimson weed
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