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Meaning of APPLE OF PERU

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
  2. [n]  coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
 
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 Synonyms: common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed, jimsonweed, Nicandra physaloides, shoo fly
 
 See Also: genus Nicandra, herb, herbaceous plant, Nicandra, thorn apple

 

 

 

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