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winter cherry
1. Name for several plants of the nightshade tribe (N.O. Solanaceæ) with cherry-like fruit which is ripe in winter; also, the fruit itself.
a. The common English name of alkekengi, a European herb bearing a round scarlet fruit inclosed in a red bladder-like envelope formed of the enlarged calyx; also of other species of Physalis, as the Cape Gooseberry, P. edulis.
1548Turner Names of Herbes (E.D.S.) 75 Solanum vesicarium..in englishe Alcakeng or wynter cheries. 1575J. Banister Chyrurg. 96 b, Alcakengi, Winter cherie, a kynde of nightshade. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 462 Halicacabum sive Alkakengi. Winter Cherries. 1721Mortimer Husb. II. 178 Winter Cherries are increased from the Roots by Sprouts or Runners. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Alkekengi, The common medicinal Winter-Cherry. 1840F. D. Bennett Whaling Voy. II. 328 Physalis edulis—Cape Gooseberry or Winter Cherry.
b. Applied to species of Solanum with cherry-like fruit, as S. Pseudo-capsicum, also called Jerusalem Cherry.
1629Parkinson Parad. 431 Amonum Plinij seu Pseudo⁓capsicum. Tree Night shade or the Winter Cherry tree. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Solanum. 1850 G. Glenny Handbk. Flower-Garden 129 Solanum pseudo-capsicum is the Winter Cherry, a greenhouse bush, grown for its red cherry-like berries in winter.
2. Applied to species of Cardiospermum or Heartseed (N.O. Sapindaceæ), having fruit inclosed in an inflated calyx like that of Physalis (see 1); esp. C. Halicacabum, also called Balloon Vine.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lii. §2. 270 The blacke winter Cherrie hath weake and slender stalkes somewhat crested, and like vnto the tendrels of the Vine. 1866[see heart-pea s.v. heart n. 56 b]. |