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Detailed Synonyms for apple of Peru in English

apple of Peru:

apple of Peru [the ~] noun

  1. the apple of Peru
    – intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits 1
    the common thorn apple; the Jamestown weed; the jimson weed; the apple of Peru; the Datura stramonium; the jimsonweed
    – intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits 1
  2. the apple of Peru
    – coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry 1
    the shoo fly; the Nicandra physaloides; the apple of Peru
    – coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry 1

Related Definitions for "apple of Peru":

  1. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits1
  2. coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry1

Related Synonyms for apple of Peru