HyperDic: chinese_lantern_plant

English > 1 sense of the expression Chinese lantern plant:
NOUNplantChinese lantern plant, winter cherry, bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengiOld World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
English > Chinese lantern plant: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningOld World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx.
Synonymswinter cherry, bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi
Broaderground cherry, husk tomatoAny of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk
Spanishalquequenje, halicácabo, vejiga de perro

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