jimson

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1. 1
   noun

   US: jimsonweed, a poisonous annual plant with trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly seed capsules

   Poisonous jimson and tall sunflowers grew throughout the neglected garden.

A shortening of jimsonweed, itself an alteration of Jamestown weed after a notorious seventeenth-century poisoning at Jamestown, Virginia. Jimpson and jimpsonweed are established variants with an inserted p sound.

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