Found 2 items, similar to winter cherry.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: winter cherry
winter cherry
n 1: Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated
papery orange-red calyx [syn:
Chinese lantern plant,
bladder cherry
,
Physalis alkekengi]
2: small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for
its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow
cherry-sized fruit [syn:
Jerusalem cherry,
Madeira winter cherry
,
Solanum pseudocapsicum]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: winter cherry
Alkekengi
\Al`ke*ken"gi\, n. [Cf. F. alk['e]kenge, Sp.
alquequenje, ultimately fr. Ar. al-k[=a]kanj a kind of resin
from Herat.] (Bot.)
An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (
Physalis alkekengi
) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry,
the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy
calyx; -- also called
winter cherry,
ground cherry, and
strawberry tomato. --D. C. Eaton.
[1913 Webster]