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GROUND CHERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
ground cherry; husk tomato
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ground cherry" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ground cherry"):
downy ground cherry; Physalis pubescens; strawberry tomato (decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk)
bladder cherry; Chinese lantern plant; Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry (Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx)
cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry (annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits)
dwarf cape gooseberry; Physalis pruinosa; strawberry tomato (stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits)
jamberry; Mexican husk tomato; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo (annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes)
jamberry; miltomate; Physalis philadelphica; purple ground cherry; tomatillo (Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes)
Physalis viscosa; yellow henbane (found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries)
Holonyms ("ground cherry" is a member of...):
genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)
