apple of peru

Noun
  1. Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry (synset 112927817)
    is a type 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
    belongs to: genus nicandra, nicandra - sturdy annual of Peru
    same as: nicandra physaloides, shoo fly
  2. Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits (synset 112924263)
    is a type of: thorn apple - any of several plants of the genus Datura
    same as: common thorn apple, datura stramonium, jamestown weed, jimson weed, jimsonweed

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