English > genus Physalis: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | ground cherries. |
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| Synonym | Physalis |
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| Member of | Solanaceae, family Solanaceae, potato family | large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous |
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| Members | cape gooseberry, purple ground cherry, Physalis peruviana | Annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits |
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| 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 |
| Broader | asterid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
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| Spanish | alquenqueje, alquequenje, capulí, género physalis, genus physalis, physalis, uchuva |
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| Catalan | genus physalis, physalis |
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