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WINTER CHERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
Synonyms:
Jerusalem cherry; Madeira winter cherry; Solanum pseudocapsicum; winter cherry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("winter cherry" is a kind of...):
nightshade (any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit)
Sense 2
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:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("winter cherry" 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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