mayapple

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

mayapples plural May apple alternative

词汇关系

近义词
hog apple raccoon-berry
衍生词
mayapple rust

词源

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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