winter cherry
noun
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.
the red, berrylike fruit of this plant.
Origin of winter cherry
1First recorded in 1540–50
- Also called alkekengi.
Words Nearby winter cherry
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How to use winter cherry in a sentence
It had eight heads, and the eyes were red, "like winter-cherry."
Myths & Legends of Japan | F. Hadland (Frederick Hadland) Davis
British Dictionary definitions for winter cherry
winter cherry
noun
a Eurasian solanaceous plant, Physalis alkekengi, cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
the calyx of this plant
- See also Chinese lantern, ground cherry
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