apple of Peru
apple of Peru · apples of Peru
дурман, дурман обыкновенный, дурман вонючий
Stechapfel
The flowering plant Nicandra physalodes of the nightshade familyThe flowering plant Nicandra physalodes of the nightshade family.
Meaning
1 sensesThe flowering plant Nicandra physalodes of the nightshade family.
More definitions
- coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
- intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits
Forms
plural: apples of PeruSynonyms
7 synonymsClose in meaning
- coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry:shoo flyNicandra physaloides
- intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits:jimsonweedjimson weedJamestown weedcommon thorn appleDatura stramonium
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular