winter cherry

English Thesaurus

1. small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	nightshade,
definition	:	any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit (noun.plant)

2. Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	ground cherry, husk tomato,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)