SHOO FLY

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Meaning:

Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry

Synonyms:

apple of Peru; Nicandra physaloides; shoo fly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("shoo fly" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("shoo fly" is a member of...):

genus Nicandra; Nicandra (sturdy annual of Peru)

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