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winter cherry

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: winter cherry

1
 n
Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
2
 n
small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: winter cherry
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n Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

Synonyms:
Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi, bladder 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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n small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit

Synonyms:
Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum
Type of:
nightshade
any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
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