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Noun: bladder cherry  'bla-dur 'che-ree
  1. Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
    "Bladder cherry lanterns glowed in the autumn garden";
    - Chinese lantern plant, winter cherry, Physalis alkekengi

Derived forms: bladder cherries

Type of: ground cherry, husk tomato

Encyclopedia: Bladder cherry