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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

alkékenge

, Sp.

alquequenje

, ultimately fr. Ar.

al-kākanj

a kind of resin from Herat.]

(Bot.)

An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (

Physalis alkekengi

) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; – also called

winter cherry

ground cherry

, and

strawberry tomato

D. C. Eaton.

Noun.

The winter cherry, a species of physalis. The plant bears a near resemblance to solanum, or nightshade. The berry is medicinal.

alkekengi ‎(plural alkekengis)

bladder cherry — see bladder cherry