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YELLOW HENBANE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow henbane mean?
• YELLOW HENBANE (noun)
The noun YELLOW HENBANE has 1 sense:
1. found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries
Familiarity information: YELLOW HENBANE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("yellow henbane" 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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