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What is a mayapple?

What is a mayapple? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
  2. The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum
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Her first poetry collection, After the Firestorm, was published last November by Mayapple Press.
Farther back, there's furtive jack-in-the-pulpit and mayapple, and along our driveway, wild columbine's whiskered pendants.
The drug Sattely chose to focus on is produced by a leafy Himalayan plant called the mayapple.
Scientists have found the mayapple is an excellent source of podophyllotoxin, a compound used for making cancer-fighting chemicals.
If the method is adopted, increased demand for the American mayapple may make it a new alternative crop.
Violets, wild geranium, mayapple, and blue phlox bloom in April and May.

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