| winter cherry n. A frequently cultivated Eurasian plant (Physalis alkekengi) having small red berries enclosed in inflated papery orange-red seed cases. Also called Chinese lantern plant. |
winter cherry
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a Eurasian solanaceous plant, Physalis alkekengi, cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the calyx of this plant See also Chinese lantern, ground cherry
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| Noun | 1. | winter cherry - Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx 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 |
| 2. |  winter cherry - small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruitnightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit |
Translations
winter cherry n → alchechengi m inv
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