physalis alkekengi

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

   SynonymsChinese lantern plantwinter cherrybladder cherry

   Broaderground cherry

Questions about physalis alkekengi

What does physalis alkekengi mean?

physalis alkekengi means "Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx".

What is another word for physalis alkekengi?

Close synonyms include Chinese lantern plant, winter cherry, bladder cherry. 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 physalis alkekengi a common word?

physalis alkekengi 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.