Word Meanings - STINKWEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.

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• JAMESTOWN WEED
  The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium , a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.
• STRAMONIUM
  A poisonous plant ; stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.
• DATURA
  A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit. Note: The commonest species are the thorn apple , with a prickly capsule , white flowers and green stem, and D. tatula, with a purplish tinge of