GROUND CHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ground cherry mean? 

• GROUND CHERRY (noun)
  The noun GROUND CHERRY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: GROUND CHERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUND CHERRY (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ground cherry; husk tomato

Hypernyms ("ground cherry" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ground cherry"):

downy ground cherry; Physalis pubescens; strawberry tomato (decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk)

bladder cherry; Chinese lantern plant; Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry (Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx)

cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry (annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits)

dwarf cape gooseberry; Physalis pruinosa; strawberry tomato (stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits)

jamberry; Mexican husk tomato; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo (annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes)

jamberry; miltomate; Physalis philadelphica; purple ground cherry; tomatillo (Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes)

Physalis viscosa; yellow henbane (found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries)

Holonyms ("ground cherry" is a member of...):

genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)