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winter cherry vs ground cherry

ground cherry vs winter cherry

winter cherry and ground cherry both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
winter cherry Yes No No No
ground cherry Yes No No No
As nouns, ground cherry is a hypernym of winter cherry; that is, ground cherry is a word with a broader meaning than winter cherry:
  • winter cherry: Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
  • 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
Other hypernyms of winter cherry include husk tomato.
winter cherry (noun) ground cherry (noun)
small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit 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 winter cherry and ground cherry

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