mayapple
mayapple noun: a fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
Noun
mayapple (plural mayapples)
- A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
- Etoposide came from the fruit of the poisonous mayapple.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 206
- The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.
mayapple meaning in Tamil and Tagalog
mayapple in Tamil
- இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும்
mayapple in Tagalog
- plant
- podopil, mansanas ng Mayo
Synonyms of mayapple
Forms of mayapple
| plural | mayapples |
|---|---|
| alternative form | May apple |
Origin of mayapple
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.
Words formed from mayapple
Questions about mayapple
- What does mayapple mean?
- Mayapple means a fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
- What is mayapple in Tamil?
- Mayapple in Tamil is இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும். See Mayapple meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is mayapple?
- Mayapple is a noun.
- What is the plural of mayapple?
- The plural of mayapple is mayapples.
Words near mayapple in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mayapple (page history and authors); mayapple (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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