mayapple

Meaning

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• raccoon-berry

Origin

• 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.