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DWARF CAPE GOOSEBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dwarf cape gooseberry mean? 

DWARF CAPE GOOSEBERRY (noun)
  The noun DWARF CAPE GOOSEBERRY has 1 sense:

1. stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruitsplay

  Familiarity information: DWARF CAPE GOOSEBERRY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DWARF CAPE GOOSEBERRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dwarf cape gooseberry; Physalis pruinosa; strawberry tomato

Hypernyms ("dwarf cape gooseberry" 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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