datura stramonium

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datura stramonium - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jamestown weed \James"town` weed`\ (Bot.)
     The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium
     ), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown,
     Virginia. See Datura.
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     Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and
           gympsum.
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  Stramonium \Stra*mo"ni*um\, n. [NL.; Cf. F. stramoine.] (Bot.)
     A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See
     Datura, and Jamestown weed.
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  Atropine \At"ro*pine\, n. [Gr. ? inflexible; hence ? ?, one of
     the three Parc[ae]; 'a priv. + ? to turn.] (Chem.)
     A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from
     the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the
     Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its
     power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also
     daturine.
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datura stramonium - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Datura stramonium
      n 1: intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having
           rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped
           flowers and prickly fruits [syn: jimsonweed, jimson weed
           , Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru
           , Datura stramonium]