English noun: apple of Peru | |||
1. | apple of Peru (plant) 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | herb, herbaceous plant | ||
Member meronym | genus Nicandra, Nicandra | ||
2. | apple of Peru (plant) 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | thorn apple | ||