mayapple

词形变化

mayapples 复数 mayapples

别名

May apple

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

  2. 2.

    The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

fruit herb

相关短语

mayapple rust

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary