apple of Peru

apple of Peru

noun
a plant, Nicandra physalodes, of the nightshade family, having large blue flowers.
Also called shoo-fly plant.


Origin:
1775–85, Americanism
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Apple of Peru is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
WordNet
apple of peru

noun
1. coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry 
2. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits [syn: jimsonweed
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