mayapple
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See also: May apple
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Etymology[edit]
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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