winter cherry
noun
1.
Also called
Chinese lantern plant
. a Eurasian ground cherry,
Physalis alkekengi,
of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
2.
the red, berrylike fruit of this plant.
Also called
alkekengi
.
Origin
1540-50
British Dictionary definitions for
winter cherry
winter cherry
noun
1.
a Eurasian solanaceous plant,
Physalis alkekengi,
cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
2.
the calyx of this plant
See also
Chinese lantern
,
ground cherry