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APPLE OF PERU
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Dictionary entry overview: What does apple of Peru mean?
• APPLE OF PERU (noun)
The noun APPLE OF PERU has 2 senses:
1. coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
2. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
Familiarity information: APPLE OF PERU used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
apple of Peru; Nicandra physaloides; shoo fly
Hypernyms ("apple of Peru" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Holonyms ("apple of Peru" is a member of...):
genus Nicandra; Nicandra (sturdy annual of Peru)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
apple of Peru; common thorn apple; Datura stramonium; Jamestown weed; jimson weed; jimsonweed
Hypernyms ("apple of Peru" is a kind of...):
thorn apple (any of several plants of the genus Datura)
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