podophyllum peltatum

Questions about podophyllum peltatum

What does podophyllum peltatum mean?

podophyllum peltatum means "North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit".

What is another word for podophyllum peltatum?

Close synonyms include mayapple, May apple, wild mandrake. 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 podophyllum peltatum a common word?

podophyllum peltatum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.