winter cherry: Meaning and Definition of
win'ter cher'ry
- Also calleda Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
- the red, berrylike fruit of this plant.
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