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winter cherry
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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.
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Noun1.winter cherry - Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
bladder cherry, Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi
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 fruit
Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum
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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