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Webster 1913 Edition
Jamestown weed
James′townˊ weedˊ
.(Bot.)
The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (
Datura stramonium
), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown
, Virginia. See Datura
. ☞ This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.