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apple of peru meaning and definition
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Definition of apple of Peru (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
- 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
Source: Princeton University Wordnet