mayapple
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- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 8
Definition of mayapple
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
“Etoposide came from the fruit of the poisonous mayapple.”
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noun
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A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
“Etoposide came from the fruit of the poisonous mayapple.”
- The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.
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Etymology
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.
Words you can make from mayapple
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