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

1 sense of cape gooseberry

Sense 1
cape gooseberry, purple ground cherry, Physalis peruviana -- (annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits)
       => 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)