ground cherry
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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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | downy ground cherry, physalis pubescens, strawberry tomato, |
| definition | : | decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bladder cherry, chinese lantern plant, physalis alkekengi, winter cherry, |
| definition | : | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cape gooseberry, physalis peruviana, purple ground cherry, |
| definition | : | annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | dwarf cape gooseberry, physalis pruinosa, strawberry tomato, |
| definition | : | stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | jamberry, mexican husk tomato, physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo, |
| definition | : | annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | jamberry, miltomate, physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo, |
| definition | : | Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | physalis viscosa, yellow henbane, |
| definition | : | found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus physalis, physalis, |
| definition | : | ground cherries (noun.plant) |
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