jimsonweed

See also: jimson weed

English

Etymology

Jimson (alteration of Jamestown) + weed

Datura stramonium, jimsonweed

jimsosweed flower

jimsonweed plant

Noun

jimsonweed (countable and uncountable, plural jimsonweeds)

1. (US) A poisonous plant of the Datura stramonium species, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family. A hallucinogen occasionally ingested by those looking for a cheap high.
2. (US, by extension, proscribed) Any poisonous plant of the Datura genus.

Synonyms

• (poisonous plant): angel's trumpet, devil's apple, devil's cucumber. devil's trumpet, Jamestown weed, mad apple, moonflower, stinkweed, thorn apple, zombie's cucumber

Translations

Datura stramonium

• Bashkir: ҡаразирә (qarazirə)
• Cahuilla: kíkesewva'al
• Cherokee: ᏒᏟ (svhli)
• Czech: durman (cs) m
• Danish: pigæble n
• Finnish: hulluruoho (fi)
• Galician: figueira do demo f, figueira tola f
• German: Stechapfel (de) m
• Hungarian: maszlag (hu), csattanó maszlag (hu)
• Italian: stramonio m
• Nahuatl: toloatzin
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• Navajo: chʼóhojilyééh
• Panamint: muippüh
• Persian: تاتوره (fa) (tâture)
• Polish: bieluń f
• Portuguese: trombeta (pt) f, estramónio (pt) m (Portugal), estramônio m (Brazil), figueira-do-inferno f, figueira-do-diabo f
• Romanian: ciumăfaie (ro) f, laur (ro) m
• Russian: дурма́н (ru) m (durmán)
• Sanskrit: कनक (sa) m (kanaka)
• Spanish: estramonio m, toloache m
• Swedish: spikklubba c