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GENUS PHYSALIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ground cherries
Synonyms:
genus Physalis; Physalis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Physalis" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Physalis"):
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)
cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry (annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits)
Holonyms ("genus Physalis" is a member of...):
family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)
