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apple of Peru

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: apple of Peru

1
 n
coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
2
 n
intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: apple of Peru
1

n coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry

Synonyms:
Nicandra physaloides, shoo fly
Type of:
herb, herbaceous plant
a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
2

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

Synonyms:
Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, jimson weed, jimsonweed
Type of:
thorn apple
any of several plants of the genus Datura
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