DOWNY GROUND CHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does downy ground cherry mean? 

• DOWNY GROUND CHERRY (noun)
  The noun DOWNY GROUND CHERRY has 1 sense:

1. decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOWNY GROUND CHERRY (noun)

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Meaning:

Decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

downy ground cherry; Physalis pubescens; strawberry tomato

Hypernyms ("downy 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)