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mayapple

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aaelmppyStarts with MEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit

Word origin

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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  • Etoposide came from the fruit of the poisonous mayapple.

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