jimsonweed

Questions about jimsonweed

What does jimsonweed mean?

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

How many syllables are in jimsonweed?

jimsonweed has 3 syllables and divides as jim-son-weed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jimsonweed?

Close synonyms include jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru, Datura stramonium. 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 jimsonweed a common word?

jimsonweed 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.