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alkekengi |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alkekengi \Al`ke*ken"gi\, n. [Cf. F. alk['e]kenge, Sp alquequenje ultimately fr Ar al-k[=a]kanj 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.
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