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    CAPE GOOSEBERRY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruitsplay

    Synonyms:

    cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("cape gooseberry" 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 ("cape gooseberry" is a member of...):

    genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)

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