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PHYSALIS PRUINOSA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Physalis pruinosa mean?
• PHYSALIS PRUINOSA (noun)
The noun PHYSALIS PRUINOSA has 1 sense:
1. stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
Familiarity information: PHYSALIS PRUINOSA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("Physalis pruinosa" 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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