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GENUS PHYSALIS

• GENUS PHYSALIS (noun)
The noun GENUS PHYSALIS has 1 sense:

1. ground cherries

Familiarity information: GENUS PHYSALIS used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS PHYSALIS (noun)

Sense 1

genus Physalis ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Ground cherries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Physalis; Physalis

Hypernyms ("genus Physalis" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Physalis"):

ground cherry; husk tomato (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)

cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry (annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits)

Holonyms ("genus Physalis" is a member of...):

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
(English proverb)
"Hungry bear doesn't dance."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"Choose your neighbours before you choose your home."
(Arabic proverb)
"Empty barrels make more noise."
(Danish proverb)

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