NOUN | plant | Physalis alkekengi, Chinese lantern plant, winter cherry, bladder cherry | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx |
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Meaning | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx. | |
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Synonyms | Chinese lantern plant, winter cherry, bladder cherry | |
Broader | 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 |
Spanish | alquequenje, halicácabo, vejiga de perro |
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