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Mayapple

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit wordnet
  3. 3
    The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.

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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