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mayapple

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mayap-ple
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.

Example Sentences

Etymology

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.

Inflected Forms

mayapples (plural) May apple (alternative)

Phrases

mayapple rust

Synonyms

hog apple raccoon-berry may apple wild mandrake podophyllum peltatum

Questions

What does mayapple mean?
A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
Where does mayapple come from?
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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