PHYSALIS PERUVIANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Physalis peruviana mean? 

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

1. annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSALIS PERUVIANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry

Hypernyms ("Physalis peruviana" 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 ("Physalis peruviana" is a member of...):

genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)