apple of Peru

Definitions of apple of Peru

1. 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

   type of:

   herb, herbaceous plant

   a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
2. noun

   intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
   synonyms: Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, jimson weed, jimsonweed

   type of:

   thorn apple

   any of several plants of the genus Datura