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Noun: ground cherry  grawnd che-ree
  1. 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
    - husk tomato

Derived forms: ground cherries

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Physalis, Physalis

Encyclopedia: Ground cherry

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