ground cherry vs Chinese lantern plant

Chinese lantern plant vs ground cherry

ground cherry and Chinese lantern plant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ground cherry	Yes	No	No	No
Chinese lantern plant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Chinese lantern plant is a hyponym of ground cherry; that is, Chinese lantern plant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ground cherry:

ground cherry: 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
Chinese lantern plant: Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

Other hyponyms of ground cherry include downy ground cherry, Physalis pubescens, strawberry tomato, bladder cherry, 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.

ground cherry (noun)	Chinese lantern plant (noun)
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	Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

Difference between ground cherry and Chinese lantern plant

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