Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun apple_of_peru

2 senses of apple of peru

Sense 1
apple of Peru, shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides -- (coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry)
       => herb, herbaceous plant -- (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Sense 2
jimsonweed, jimson weed, Jamestown weed, common thorn apple, apple of Peru, Datura stramonium -- (intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits)
       => thorn apple -- (any of several plants of the genus Datura)