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winter cherry

noun

1. Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

• Syn: ↑Chinese lantern plant, ↑bladder cherry, ↑Physalis alkekengi

• Hypernyms: ↑ground cherry, ↑husk tomato

2. small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit

• Syn: ↑Jerusalem cherry, ↑Madeira winter cherry, ↑Solanum pseudocapsicum

• Hypernyms: ↑nightshade

Useful english dictionary. 2012.