datura stramonium

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   intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits

   Synonymsjimsonweedjimson weedJamestown weedcommon thorn appleapple of Peru

   Broaderthorn apple

Questions about datura stramonium

What does datura stramonium mean?

datura stramonium means "intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits".

What is another word for datura stramonium?

Close synonyms include jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is datura stramonium a common word?

datura stramonium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.