jamestown |
jamestown | (n) a former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607 |
Jamestown weed | (Bot.) The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at ☞ This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. [ 1913 Webster ] |