apple of peru

Noun apple of peru has 2 senses

• apple of peru(n = noun.plant) nicandra physaloides, shoo fly - coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry;
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
is a member of genus nicandra, nicandra

• apple of peru(n = noun.plant) common thorn apple, datura stramonium, jamestown weed, jimson weed, jimsonweed - intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits;
is a kind of thorn apple