winter cherry

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• n. A frequently cultivated Eurasian plant (Physalis alkekengi) having small red berries enclosed in inflated papery orange-red seed cases. Also called Chinese lantern plant.

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• n. bladder cherry

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• n.
• n. a plant (Physalis Alkekengi) of the Nightshade family, which has, a red berry inclosed in the inflated and persistent calyx. See Alkekengi.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• n. See alkekengi and strawberry-tomato.
• n. See Solarium.
• n. Same as heartseed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• n. small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
• n. Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx