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WINTER CHERRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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; winter cherry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("winter cherry" is a kind of...):

nightshade (any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("winter 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)

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