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Jerusalem cherry

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A shrub (Solanum pseudocapsicum) in the nightshade family, having poisonous red fruit and grown as a houseplant.

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  • noun small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit

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