mayapple

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17
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8

Definition of mayapple

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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.”
  2. 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.

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