ground cherry vs winter cherry

winter cherry vs ground cherry

ground cherry and winter cherry both are nouns.

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

As nouns, winter cherry is a hyponym of ground cherry; that is, winter 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
winter cherry: 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, Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi, 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)	winter 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	small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
	Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

Difference between ground cherry and winter cherry

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