apple of Peru
1. coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry • Syn: shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides • Hypernyms: herb, herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: Nicandra, genus Nicandra 2. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits • Syn: jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium • Hypernyms: thorn apple
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