CHINESE LANTERN PLANT

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bladder cherry; Chinese lantern plant; Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Chinese lantern plant" is a kind 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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