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bladder cherry

DEFINITIONS OF: bladder cherry

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n Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

Synonyms:
Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi, winter 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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