mayapple
See also: May apple
English
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[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]mayapple (plural mayapples)
- A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
- The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.
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