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    BLADDER CHERRY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyxplay

    Synonyms:

    bladder cherry; Chinese lantern plant; Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry

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    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("bladder 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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