chinese lantern plant

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   Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

   Synonymswinter cherrybladder cherryPhysalis alkekengi

   Broaderground cherry

Questions about chinese lantern plant

What does chinese lantern plant mean?

chinese lantern plant means "Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx".

What is another word for chinese lantern plant?

Close synonyms include winter cherry, bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi. 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 chinese lantern plant a common word?

chinese lantern plant 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.