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Definition 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.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Nicandra, Nicandra
2. Noun. Intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits.
Generic synonyms: Thorn Apple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apple Of Peru
Literary usage of Apple of Peru
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... a potato flower : fruit a thin- walled and nearly or quite dry berry, inclosed
in an enlarged, strongly 5-winged calyx. BM 2458.—The apple of Peru is an ..."
2. The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick (1890)
"To this family belong the Tomato, Red Pepper, Apple-of-Peru, Petunia, Tobacco,
... apple of Peru.—A dry berry. A five- parted calyx, parts heart-shaped. ..."
3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"apple of Peru. Solanaceae. From Greek, "resembling Physalis". Syn. Nicandra, Adans.
... Peru, cult, and adv. in US apple of Peru, Peruvian Bluebell. 1580. ..."
4. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"The name apple of Peru has also been applied to Datura metel, a plant of Africa
and the East Indies. Note B. In the Catalogue of plants in the Botanic ..."
5. Medical Botany; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants ...by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1834)
"... and by the old writers of that period it is called the " Thorny apple of Peru."
A variety is also native to America, which is generally a larger plant, ..."
6. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Apple [of] Peru. See Jamestown Weed. Apple-Toddy. A favorite mixture made of
whiskey or brandy, resembling punch, in which roasted apples take the place of ..."
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