noun
- Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry.
- synonyms: shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides
- Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits.
- synonyms: jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium
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