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DOWNY GROUND CHERRY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk
Synonyms:
downy ground cherry; Physalis pubescens; strawberry tomato
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("downy ground cherry" 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)