apple of peru

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsshoo flyNicandra physaloides

   Broaderherb

   Part ofNicandra
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsjimsonweedjimson weedJamestown weedcommon thorn appleDatura stramonium

   Broaderthorn apple

Questions about apple of peru

What does apple of peru mean?

apple of peru means "coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for apple of peru?

Close synonyms include shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides, jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apple of peru a common word?

apple of peru is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.