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thorn apple — noun any of several plants of the genus Datura • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Hyponyms: ↑jimsonweed, ↑jimson weed, ↑Jamestown weed, ↑common thorn apple, ↑apple of Peru, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
apple of Peru — noun 1. coarse South American herb grown for its blue and white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry • Syn: ↑shoo fly, ↑Nicandra physaloides • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: ↑Nicandra … Useful english dictionary
Apple (symbolism) — Apples appear in many religious traditions, often as a mystical or forbidden fruit. One of the problems identifying apples in religion, mythology and folktales is that the word apple was used as a generic term for all (foreign) fruit, other than… … Wikipedia
Thorn — 1) Heb. hedek (Prov. 15:19), rendered brier in Micah 7:4. Some thorny plant, of the Solanum family, suitable for hedges. This is probably the so called apple of Sodom, which grows very abundantly in the Jordan valley. It is a shrubby plant,… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
List of common misconceptions — This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive. This is a list of current, widely held, false ideas and beliefs about notable topics which have been reported by reliable sources from around the world. Each has been discussed in published… … Wikipedia
List of plants by common name (Sonoran Desert) — This is a List of plants by common name (Sonoran Desert), for the Sonoran Desert and local environs; (S California, etc New Mexico, S, SW or Rio Grande Valley Northern Mexico states: Sonora, Chihuahua and Baja California, North and South, and… … Wikipedia
Feathered Thorn — Colotois pennaria Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum … Wikipedia
prickly apple — noun : a common West Indian thorny shrub or small tree (Catesbaea spinosa) called also lily thorn … Useful english dictionary
Datura stramonium — noun intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet shaped flowers and prickly fruits • Syn: ↑jimsonweed, ↑jimson weed, ↑Jamestown weed, ↑common thorn apple, ↑apple of Peru •… … Useful english dictionary
Jamestown weed — noun intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet shaped flowers and prickly fruits • Syn: ↑jimsonweed, ↑jimson weed, ↑common thorn apple, ↑apple of Peru, ↑Datura stramonium •… … Useful english dictionary
