apple of Peru
1.
(
noun
) 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
Related Words:
herb
,
herbaceous plant
2.
(
noun
) 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
,
jimpsonweed
,
jimson weed
,
jimsonweed
Related Words:
thorn apple
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