purple ground cherry

Questions about purple ground cherry

What does purple ground cherry mean?

purple ground cherry means "Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for purple ground cherry?

Close synonyms include tomatillo, miltomate, jamberry, Physalis philadelphica, cape gooseberry. 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 purple ground cherry a common word?

purple 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.