PURPLE GROUND CHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purple ground cherry mean? 

• PURPLE GROUND CHERRY (noun)
  The noun PURPLE GROUND CHERRY has 2 senses:

1. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes

2. annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

  Familiarity information: PURPLE GROUND CHERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPLE GROUND CHERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

jamberry; miltomate; Physalis philadelphica; purple ground cherry; tomatillo

Hypernyms ("purple ground cherry" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry

Hypernyms ("purple ground cherry" 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 ("purple ground cherry" is a member of...):

genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)