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coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry

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  1. n. coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
  2. n. intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits