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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The winter-cherry, a solanaceous plant, Physalis Alkekengi.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A herbaceous plant of the nightshade family, Physalis alkekengi.
  • noun The flavoursome berry of this plant.

Etymologies

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Compare French alkékenge, Spanish alquequenje, ultimately from Arabic.

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