n, often cap  1  :  a No. American herb of the genus Podophyllum (P. peltatum) having a poisonous rootstock and rootlets that are a source of the drug podophyllum and bearing first a single large-lobed peltate leaf and later two similar leaves with a single large white flower at their base  2  :  the yellow egg-shaped edible but often insipid fruit of the mayapple .
 
 
 
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