cape gooseberry

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   annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

   Synonymspurple ground cherryPhysalis peruviana

   Broaderground cherry

   Part ofPhysalis

Questions about cape gooseberry

What does cape gooseberry mean?

cape gooseberry means "annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits".

What is another word for cape gooseberry?

Close synonyms include purple ground cherry, Physalis peruviana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cape gooseberry a common word?

cape gooseberry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.