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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


SynonymsNicandra physaloides, shoo fly


Broader (hypernym)herb, herbaceous plant


Member meronymgenus 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


Synonymscommon thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed, jimsonweed


Broader (hypernym)thorn apple









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