genus physalis
Noun
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Ground cherries (synset 112930901)
is a type of: asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsmember holonym:
- 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
belongs to: 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 Solandrasame as: physalis
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