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CHINESE LANTERN PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Chinese lantern plant mean?
• CHINESE LANTERN PLANT (noun)
The noun CHINESE LANTERN PLANT has 1 sense:
1. Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
Familiarity information: CHINESE LANTERN PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CHINESE LANTERN PLANT (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bladder cherry; Chinese lantern plant; Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry
Hypernyms ("Chinese lantern plant" is a kind of...):
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)
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