PHYSALIS VISCOSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Physalis viscosa mean? 

• PHYSALIS VISCOSA (noun)
  The noun PHYSALIS VISCOSA has 1 sense:

1. found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries

  Familiarity information: PHYSALIS VISCOSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSALIS VISCOSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Physalis viscosa; yellow henbane

Hypernyms ("Physalis viscosa" 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)