PHYSALIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Physalis mean? 

• PHYSALIS (noun)
  The noun PHYSALIS has 1 sense:

1. ground cherries

  Familiarity information: PHYSALIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSALIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ground cherries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Physalis; Physalis

Hypernyms ("Physalis" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Physalis"):

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)

Holonyms ("Physalis" is a member of...):

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 Solandra)