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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