apple_of_peru | ||
1. | [ noun ] (botany) 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 | |
Related terms: | herb Nicandra | |
2. | [ noun ] (botany) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits | |
Synonyms: | jimson_weed jimpsonweed Jamestown_weed common_thorn_apple Datura_stramonium jimsonweed | |
Related terms: | thorn_apple | |
Similar spelling: |
apple_butter apple_of_discord apple_fritter apple_polisher apple_aphid |