winter cherry
1. Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx • Syn: Chinese lantern plant, bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi • Hypernyms: ground cherry, husk tomato 2. small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit • Syn: Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum • Hypernyms: nightshade
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