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BLADDER CHERRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bladder cherry mean?
• BLADDER CHERRY (noun)
The noun BLADDER CHERRY has 1 sense:
1. Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
Familiarity information: BLADDER CHERRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bladder cherry; Chinese lantern plant; Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry
Hypernyms ("bladder 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)
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