downy ground cherry

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   decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk

   Synonymsstrawberry tomatoPhysalis pubescens

   Broaderground cherry

Questions about downy ground cherry

What does downy ground cherry mean?

downy ground cherry means "decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk".

What is another word for downy ground cherry?

Close synonyms include strawberry tomato, Physalis pubescens. 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 downy ground cherry a common word?

downy ground cherry 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.