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apple of Peru

noun

1 apple of Peru

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.

2 apple of Peru

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.

Polish: bieluń dziędzierzawa


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