THORN APPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thorn apple mean? 

• THORN APPLE (noun)
  The noun THORN APPLE has 1 sense:

1. any of several plants of the genus Datura

  Familiarity information: THORN APPLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THORN APPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Datura

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thorn apple"):

apple of Peru; common thorn apple; Datura stramonium; Jamestown weed; jimson weed; jimsonweed (intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits)

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

Datura; genus Datura (thorn apple)