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Apple of Peru   /ˈæpəl əv pərˈu/   Listen
Apple of Peru

noun
1.
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.
2.
Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits.  Synonyms: common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed, jimsonweed.






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Words linked to "Apple of Peru" :   Nicandra, herb, herbaceous plant, thorn apple, genus Nicandra



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