apple of Peru

app·leof·peru

uncommon

noun

1.

coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry

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2.

intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits

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Nicandra

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Grammar

noun
singular	apple of peru
plural	apples-of-peru, apple of perus

Nearby words

apple juice apple maggot apple mint apple nut apple of discord apple orchard apple pie apple polisher apple rust apple sauce

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