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

2 senses of purple ground cherry

Sense 1
tomatillo, miltomate, purple ground cherry, jamberry, Physalis philadelphica -- (Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes)
       => 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)

Sense 2
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)