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Noun: mayapple  'mey,a-pul
  1. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit
    - May apple, wild mandrake, Podophyllum peltatum
Noun: May apple  mey'a-pul
  1. Edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant

Derived forms: mayapples, May apples

Type of: fruit, herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Podophyllum, Podophyllum

Encyclopedia: Mayapple

May apple