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Winter cherry. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. 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.

1 1548.  Turner, Names of Herbes (E.D.S.), 75. Solanum vesicarium … in englishe Alcakeng or wynter cheries.

2 1575.  J. Banister, Chyrurg., 96 b. Alcakengi, Winter cherie, a kynde of nightshade.

3 1640.  Parkinson, Theat. Bot., 462. Halicacabum sive Alkakengi. Winter Cherries.

4 1721.  Mortimer, Husb., II. 178. Winter Cherries are increased from the Roots by Sprouts or Runners.

5 1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Alkekengi, The common medicinal Winter-Cherry.

6 1840.  F. D. Bennett, Whaling Voy., II. 328. Physalis edulis—Cape Gooseberry or Winter Cherry.

7   b.  Applied to species of Solanum with cherry-like fruit, as S. Pseudo-capsicum, also called Jerusalem Cherry.

8 1629.  Parkinson, Parad., 431. Amonum Plinij seu Pseudo-capsicum, Tree Night shade or the Winter Cherry tree.

9 1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Solanum.

10 1850.  Glenny, Handbk. Flower-Garden, 129. Solanum pseudu-capsicum is the Winter Cherry, a greenhouse bush, grown for its red cherry-like berries in winter.

11   2.  Applied to species of Cardiospermum or Heart-seed (N. O. Sapindaceæ), having fruit inclosed in an inflated calyx like that of Physalis (see 1); esp. C. Halicacabum, also called Balloon Vine.

12 1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, II. lii. § 2. 270. The blacke winter Cherrie hath weake and slender stalkes somewhat crested, and like vnto the tendrels of the Vine.

13 1866.  [see heart-pea, HEART sb. 56 b].

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