winter cherry

Noun winter cherry has 2 senses

• winter cherry(n = noun.plant) bladder cherry, chinese lantern plant, physalis alkekengi - Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx;
is a kind of ground cherry, husk tomato

• winter cherry(n = noun.plant) jerusalem cherry, madeira winter cherry, solanum pseudocapsicum - small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit;
is a kind of nightshade