winter cherry Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
bladder cherry; Physalis alkekengi; Chinese lantern plant.
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noun small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
Solanum pseudocapsicum; Madeira winter cherry; Jerusalem cherry.