ground cherry

Questions about ground cherry

What does ground cherry mean?

ground cherry means "any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers".

What is another word for ground cherry?

Close synonyms include husk tomato. 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 ground cherry a common word?

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.