winter cherry

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A perennial plant (Physalis alkekengi) native to Eurasia, having small red berries enclosed in inflated papery orange-red calyces.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

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• noun bladder cherry

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