Synonyms of apple of peru

Noun


1. apple of Peru, shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides, herb, herbaceous plant

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

2. jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru, Datura stramonium, thorn apple

usage: 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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