ground cherry

Noun ground cherry has 1 sense

• ground cherry(n = noun.plant) husk tomato - 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;
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
is a member of genus physalis, physalis
has particulars: downy ground cherry, physalis pubescens, strawberry tomato, bladder cherry, chinese lantern plant, physalis alkekengi, winter cherry, cape gooseberry, physalis peruviana, purple ground cherry, dwarf cape gooseberry, physalis pruinosa, strawberry tomato, jamberry, mexican husk tomato, physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo, jamberry, miltomate, physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo, physalis viscosa, yellow henbane