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PHYSALIS PERUVIANA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
Synonyms:
cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Physalis peruviana" 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)
Holonyms ("Physalis peruviana" is a member of...):
genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)