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noun
A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.
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noun
North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: May apple, wild mandrake, Podophyllum peltatum
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
History
From May + apple. The fruit is notably neither related to apples (though "apple" itself has an archaic sense of generically referring to fruit), nor ripens during the month of May; only the flower blooms then around then in certain areas.
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