ground cherry vs purple ground cherry

purple ground cherry vs ground cherry

ground cherry and purple ground cherry both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ground cherry	Yes	No	No	No
purple ground cherry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, purple ground cherry is a hyponym of ground cherry; that is, purple ground cherry 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
purple ground cherry: annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

Other hyponyms of ground cherry include downy ground cherry, Physalis pubescens, strawberry tomato, bladder cherry, Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi, winter cherry, cape gooseberry, Physalis peruviana, dwarf cape gooseberry, Physalis pruinosa, strawberry tomato, jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo, jamberry, miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, tomatillo, Physalis viscosa, yellow henbane.

ground cherry (noun)	purple ground cherry (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	annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
	Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes

Difference between ground cherry and purple ground cherry

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