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Noun: Jamestown weed
  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], common thorn apple, apple of Peru, Datura stramonium

Type of: thorn apple

Encyclopedia: Jamestown weed