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CAPE GOOSEBERRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cape gooseberry mean?
• CAPE GOOSEBERRY (noun)
The noun CAPE GOOSEBERRY has 1 sense:
1. annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
Familiarity information: CAPE GOOSEBERRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry
Hypernyms ("cape gooseberry" 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 ("cape gooseberry" is a member of...):
genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)
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