Definition of Ground Cherry in English :

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Ground Cherry meaning in English

Meaning of Ground Cherry in English

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Ground Cherry

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Noun

1. 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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Ground Cherry

see synonyms of ground cherry
noun
any of various American solanaceous plants of the genus Physalis, esp P. pubescens, having round fleshy fruit enclosed in a bladder-like husk
See also winter cherry, gooseberry (sense 4)

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Ground Cherry

see synonyms of ground cherry
noun
any of a genus (Physalis) of plants of the nightshade family having small tomatolike fruits completely enclosed by a papery calyx

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Ground Cherry

see synonyms of ground cherry
n.
1. Any of various plants of the genus Physalis in the nightshade family, chiefly of the Americas, having small, globose, fleshy fruit enclosed in a papery, bladderlike, persistent calyx.
2. The fruit of any of these plants. In both senses also called husk tomato.

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