| NOUN | plant | winter cherry, Chinese lantern plant, bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx |
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| plant | winter cherry, Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum | small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit |
| Meaning | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx. | |
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| Synonyms | Chinese lantern plant, bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi | |
| 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 | |
| Meaning | small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit. | |
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| Synonyms | Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum | |
| Broader | nightshade | Any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum |
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