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mayapple /ˈmeɪap(ə)l /nounAn American herbaceous plant of the barberry family, which bears a yellow egg-shaped fruit in May. The plant has long been used medicinally.- Podophyllum peltatum, family Berberidaceae.
If the method is adopted, increased demand for the American mayapple may make it a new alternative crop....- They might remind you of mayapple or of pachysandra.
- I have christened it the ‘Mandrake’ (the name used for the mayapple [Podophyllum peltatum] by various 16 th- and 17 th-century English poets).
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