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    GENUS PHYSALIS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Ground cherriesplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Physalis; Physalis

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Physalis" is a kind of...):

    asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Physalis"):

    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)

    cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry (annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits)

    Holonyms ("genus Physalis" is a member of...):

    family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

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