mayapple

Meaning

1. A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
2. The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.

Synonyms

wild mandrake

Podophyllum peltatum

May apple

hog apple

umbrella

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indian apple

may apple

american mandrake

Etymology

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.