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downy ground cherry

DEFINITIONS OF: downy ground cherry

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n decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk

Synonyms:
Physalis pubescens, strawberry tomato
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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