apple of Peru

apple of Peru

n. An annual plant (Nicandra physalodes) native to Peru, grown as an ornamental for its pale violet-blue, bell-shaped flowers. It is also a weed in agricultural fields.

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Noun	1.	apple of Peru - coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berryNicandra physaloides, shoo flyherb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pestsgenus Nicandra, Nicandra - sturdy annual of Peru
	2.	apple of Peru - intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruitscommon thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed, jimsonweedthorn apple - any of several plants of the genus Datura