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5 words match “JAMESTOWN WEED”

JAMESTOWN WEED n.
The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.
JIMSON WEED n.
. See Jamestown weed. [Local, U.S.]
STINKWEED n.
Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
STRAMONIUM n.
A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.
THORN n.
then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine. Thorn apple (Bot.), Jamestown weed. -- Thorn broom (Bot.), a shrub that produces thorns. -- Thorn hedge, a hedge of thorn-bearing trees or bushes. -- Thorn devil. (Zoöl.) See Moloch, 2. -- Thorn hopper (Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) whic…