Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun physalis_alkekengi

1 sense of physalis alkekengi

Sense 1
Chinese lantern plant, winter cherry, bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi -- (Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx)
       => 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)