jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru, Datura stramonium
(noun) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Jimson (alteration of Jamestown) + weed
jimsonweed (countable and uncountable, plural jimsonweeds)
(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.
(US, by extension, proscribed) Any poisonous plant of the Datura genus.
• (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
Source: Wiktionary
6 November 2024
(adverb) in a searching manner; “‘Are you really happy with him,’ asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
