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PHYSALIS ALKEKENGI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
Synonyms:
bladder cherry; Chinese lantern plant; Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Physalis alkekengi" is a kind of...):
ground cherry; husk tomato (any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers)
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