winter cherry

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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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

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	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

Translations

winter cherry n → alchechengi m inv

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winter cherry n → alchechengi m inv