Jerusalem cherry

Jerusalem cherry

n.

A shrub (Solanum pseudocapsicum) in the nightshade family, having poisonous red fruit and grown as a houseplant.

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Jerusalem cherry

n

(Plants) a small South American solanaceous shrub, Solanum pseudo-capsicum, cultivated as a house plant for its white flowers and inedible reddish cherry-like fruit

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Jeru′salem cher′ry

n.

an Old World plant, Solanum pseudocapsicum, of the nightshade family, having white flowers and cherrylike fruits.

[1780–90, Amer.]

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Jerusalem cherry - small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum, winter cherry nightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit

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