winter cherry

/ˌwɪntər ˌtʃɛri/

Other forms: winter cherries

Definitions of winter cherry

1. noun

   Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
   synonyms: Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi, bladder cherry

   type of:

   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
2. noun

   small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
   synonyms: Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum

   type of:

   nightshade

   any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit