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

Derived forms: common thorn apples

Type of: thorn apple

Encyclopedia: Common thorn apple

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