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Meaning of WINTER CHERRY
 
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Definition:
[n] small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
[n] Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
 
Synonyms:
bladder cherry
,
Chinese lantern plant
,
Jerusalem cherry
,
Madeira winter cherry
,
Physalis alkekengi
,
Solanum pseudocapsicum
 
See Also:
ground cherry
,
husk tomato
,
nightshade
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