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单词 winter cherry
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winter cherryn.

Brit. /ˈwɪntə ˌtʃɛri/, U.S. /ˈwɪn(t)ər ˌtʃɛri/
Forms: see winter n.1 and cherry n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: winter n.1, cherry n.
Etymology: < winter n.1 + cherry n.
1. Any of several plants of the nightshade family ( Solanaceae) with cherry-like fruit which is ripe in winter; (also) the fruit itself.
a. The Chinese lantern, Physalis alkekengi, a Eurasian perennial grown as an ornamental for the inflated, papery, reddish calyx that encloses the red fruit (more fully red winter cherry); (also) any of certain related plants, as the Cape gooseberry, P. peruviana.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun] > physalis
alkekengi1440
winter cherry1548
red nightshade1578
winterberry1608
pop vine1750
Physalis1754
cow pops1848
Jerusalem cherry1884
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.iiij Solanum vesicarium..in englishe Alcakeng or wynter cheries.
1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. sig. M.viiiv Alcakengi, Winter cherie, a kynde of nightshade.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 462 Halicacabum sive Alkakengi. Winter Cherries.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 178 Winter Cherries are increased from the Roots by Sprouts or Runners.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Alkekengi The common medicinal Winter-Cherry.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 328 Physalis edulis—Cape Gooseberry or Winter Cherry.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Physalis Alkekengi,..Bladder Herb, Red Nightshade, Red Winter-cherry, Straw-berry-Tomato.
1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 18 Oct. 431/2 The windows of the florists are bright just now with the fruits of physalis, the winter cherry.
2014 Goulburn (New S. Wales) Post 10 Aug. He also runs 43 greenhouses, some of which grow tomatoes and the Chinese lantern plant, popularly known as the winter cherry.
b. The Jerusalem cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum, a perennial South American nightshade with ornamental, mildly poisonous, orange fruit, regarded as an invasive weed in some countries.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Solanaceae (nightshade and allies) > [noun]
morela1400
nightshadea1400
petty morel?a1425
hound's-berryc1485
micklewort1531
manicon1543
garden nightshade1576
dulcamara1578
mad nightshade1578
raging nightshade1578
sleeping nightshade1578
solanum1578
tree nightshade1597
black nightshade1607
moonshade1626
mumme tree1629
winter cherry1629
blue bindweeda1637
canker berry1651
shrub-nightshade1666
poison berry1672
nightshade1733
woody nightshade1796
Sodom apple1808
African nightshade1839
solanal1846
felon-wood1861
shoo-fly plant1949
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 431 Amonum Plinij seu Pseudo-capsicum. Tree Night shade or the Winter Cherry tree.
1850 G. Glenny Hand-bk. Flower Garden 129 S. pseudo-capsicum is the Winter Cherry, a greenhouse bush, grown for its red cherry-like berries in winter.
1936 Canad. Hort. & Home Mag. Nov.-Dec. 245/2 The Jerusalem or winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum, has long been cultivated as an ornamental plant for Christmas use.
2004 BBC Gardeners' World Dec. 29/2 The two types of plant I've picked are cyclamen and Solanum pseudocapsicum, also known as winter cherry.
2. Any of several balloon vines or heart-seeds of the genus Cardiospermum (family Sapindaceae), having fruit enclosed in an inflated calyx like that of Physalis (see sense 1a); esp. C. halicacabum, regarded as an alien weed in some countries (more fully black winter cherry).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > heart-pea
heart pea1597
Indian heart1597
winter cherry1597
heart-seed1759
balloon vine1835
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 270 The blacke winter Cherrie hath weake and slender stalkes somewhat crested, and like vnto the tendrels of the Vine.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden ccxxvii. 358 I find but three sorts of Winter-Cherryes, that which is called Halicacabum Petegrinum or the Black Winter-Cherry perishing at the very first approach of Winter; and therefore, and for other reasons ought not to be so called.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 222 The common Heartseed..sometimes called also Winter Cherry, or Heart Pea.
1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 221/1 [Cardiospermum] Halicababum L., Balloon vine, heart pea, winter cherry.
2009 A. Heath & R. Heath Field Guide Plants N. Botswana 422 Cardiospermum halicacabum L. Common names:..English balloon vine, black winter cherry, heart seed, heart pea.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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