APPLE OF PERU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apple of Peru mean? 

• APPLE OF PERU (noun)
  The noun APPLE OF PERU has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: APPLE OF PERU used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPLE OF PERU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

apple of Peru; Nicandra physaloides; shoo fly

Hypernyms ("apple of Peru" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("apple of Peru" is a member of...):

genus Nicandra; Nicandra (sturdy annual of Peru)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

apple of Peru; common thorn apple; Datura stramonium; Jamestown weed; jimson weed; jimsonweed

Hypernyms ("apple of Peru" is a kind of...):

thorn apple (any of several plants of the genus Datura)