PHYSALIS PERUVIANA

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Meaning:

Annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

Synonyms:

cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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