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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 berriesplay

  Familiarity information: YELLOW HENBANE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


YELLOW HENBANE (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 ("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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