winter cherry


noun
  1. Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.

  2. the red, berrylike fruit of this plant.

Origin of winter cherry

1
First recorded in 1540–50

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British Dictionary definitions for winter cherry

winter cherry

noun
  1. a Eurasian solanaceous plant, Physalis alkekengi, cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

  2. the calyx of this plant

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