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jimsonweed

noun

jimsonweed is a noun meaning “A poisonous plant of the species Datura stramonium, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, occasionally ingested as a hallucinogen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled J-I-M-S-O-N-W-E-E-D, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of jimsonweed is jimsonweeds.

What does jimsonweed mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USA poisonous plant of the species Datura stramonium, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, occasionally ingested as a hallucinogen.

  2. 2

    USproscribedAny poisonous plant of the genus Datura.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of jimsonweed

  • jimsonweeds plural
  • jimson weed
  • jimpson weed
  • jimpsonweed

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is jimsonweed?

Jimsonweed appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Jimsonweed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchstramoine (Datura stramonium)
GermanStechapfel (Datura stramonium)
Portuguesetrombeta, estramónio, estramônio, figueira-do-inferno, figueira-do-diabo (Datura stramonium)
Spanishestramonio (Datura stramonium), toloache (Any Datura)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does jimsonweed come from?

From Jimson + weed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).