APPLE OF PERU

• (noun) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits

  synonyms : common thorn apple , datura stramonium , jamestown weed , jimson weed , jimsonweed

• (noun) coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry

  synonyms : nicandra physaloides , shoo fly

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