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cape gooseberry

DEFINITIONS OF: cape gooseberry

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n annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

Synonyms:
Physalis peruviana, purple ground cherry
Type of:
ground cherry, husk tomato
any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers
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