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jamestown weed
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jamestown weed,
The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium ), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown , Virginia. See Datura. [1913 Webster]
" This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum." [1913 Webster]
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