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Noun apple of peru has 2 senses
- 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
--1 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
--1 is a member of Nicandra, genus Nicandra
- 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
--2 is a kind of thorn apple
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