apple of peru Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
shoo fly; Nicandra physaloides.
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noun intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
jimsonweed; Jamestown weed; jimson weed; common thorn apple; Datura stramonium.
