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Jimson Weed

Definition: Jimson Weed

Jimson Weed

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Jimson Weed

Synonyms: apple of Peru (n), common thorn apple (n), jimsonweed (n). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Jimson Weed

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Jimson weed now.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Jimson Weed

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

jimson weed

74
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Jimson Weed

Language Translations for "jimson weed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

jedovatý plevel. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csattanó maszlag (jimsonweed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

imsonjay eedway

   

Portuguese

  

justo ao corpo, figueira-do-inferno (stramonium), estramônio (datura, stramonium). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дурман (datura, dope, jimsonweed, stramonium, thorn apple, thorn-apple). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kužnjak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Jimson Weed

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Anethum graveolens, Anethum graveolens l, anethum graveolens linnaeus, Galinsoga parviflora, Stipa pennata. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Jimson Weed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: jimsonweed.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-j-m-n-o-s-w"

-2 letters: demonise.

-3 letters: domines, emodins, endwise, misdone, sidemen, sinewed, winsome.

-4 letters: demies, demise, demons, denies, denims, dienes, disown, domine, donees, donsie, dwines, emends, emodin, endows, eonism, eosine, indows, joined, mensed, meowed, mondes, monied, monies, newies, newsie, noised, nowise, omened, onside, seined, snowed, widens, winoes, wisdom.

-5 letters: deems, deism, demes, demon, demos, denes, denim, dense, diene.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-j-m-n-o-s-w"
 

+1 letter: jimsonweeds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Jimson Weed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 69 6D 73 6F 6E      57 65 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 01101001 01101101 01110011 01101111 01101110 00100000 01010111 01100101 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#105 &#109 &#115 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#87 &#101 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0069 006D 0073 006F 006E      0057 0065 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

447579858180257717170

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Jimson Weed"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Czech

slovník, definice, překladèesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, cseh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításmaïarský, maïarština, maïar, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugalský, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеruština, ruský, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeservo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglicky, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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