jimsonweed
IPA: dʒˈɪmsʌnwid
noun
- (US) A poisonous plant of the Datura stramonium species, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, occasionally ingested as a hallucinogen.
- (US, by extension, proscribed) Any poisonous plant of the genus Datura.
jimson weed
IPA: dʒˈɪmsʌnwid
noun
- Alternative spelling of jimsonweed [(US) A poisonous plant of the Datura stramonium species, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, occasionally ingested as a hallucinogen.]
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Examples of "jimsonweed" in Sentences
- It is like atropine found in deadly nightshade and jimsonweed.
- Then Dilsie could sleep in the cabin, as she ought to on account of the jimsonweed in her phthisic pipe.
- Thomas and his friend, whom police have not identified, became critically ill after eating seeds from a jimsonweed plant.
- In the patio, the heart of the U-shaped house, she let seeds of wild grama grass, gray-green sagebrush, and jimsonweed sprout.
- Subsequent investigation by the Montgomery County health officials determined the stew contained jimsonweed -- Datura stramonium.
- The virus infects most Allium species and also is known to infect some ornamentals (iris, lisianthus) and some weeds (jimsonweed, tobacco, redroot pigweed) (UC-IPM).
- ATLANTA, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Health officials should be aware of the signs of anticholinergic toxicity and consider jimsonweed poisoning as a cause of illness, U.S. health officials say.
- Local lore is that the "Angel Trumpet" flower, also known as jimsonweed, devil's trumpet, jamestown weed, loco weed, moonflower, and thorn-apple and which grows practically as a weed in this area, is used to make the drug.
- New Mexico's state Office of the Medical Investigator reported that investigators had found an almost empty container of jimsonweed tea at the campsite where William Hodge and his friends had been spending time just prior to his death.
- Salpiglossis belongs to the always-interesting Solanaceae family, which includes edible fruits such as tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants but also tobacco, deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and poisonous jimsonweed (Datura stramonium).
- I'll admit that I was more than a little jumpy as I made my way through this gauntlet of jimsonweed and Huggies, but as I grew closer and began to make out the outline of the bunker's entrance, I heard music, faintly at first, but growing louder with each footstep until I finally recognized it as ABBA's Waterloo.