physalis peruviana

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   annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

   Synonymscape gooseberrypurple ground cherry

   Broaderground cherry

   Part ofPhysalis

Questions about physalis peruviana

What does physalis peruviana mean?

physalis peruviana means "annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits".

What is another word for physalis peruviana?

Close synonyms include cape gooseberry, purple ground 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 peruviana a common word?

physalis peruviana 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.