1. coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry; [syn: apple of Peru, shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
shoo fly
n 1: coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white
flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry
berry [syn: apple of Peru, shoo fly, Nicandra
physaloides]