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

2 senses of winter cherry

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)

Sense 2
Jerusalem cherry, winter cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum -- (small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit)
       => nightshade -- (any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit)