apple of Peru

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apple of Peru Definition

• (n) coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
• (n) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits

apple of Peru Synonyms

• apple of Peru
• common thorn apple
• Datura stramonium
• Jamestown weed
• jimson weed
• jimsonweed
• Nicandra physaloides
• shoo fly