mayapple

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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.

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mayapple (plural mayapples)

  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.

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