shoo fly

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

   Synonymsapple of PeruNicandra physaloides

   Broaderherb

   Part ofNicandra

Questions about shoo fly

What does shoo fly mean?

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

What is another word for shoo fly?

Close synonyms include apple of Peru, Nicandra physaloides. 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 shoo fly a common word?

shoo fly 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.