Jerusalem cherry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
    Solanum pseudocapsicum; Madeira winter cherry; winter cherry.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), the popular name of either of either of two species of Solanum (S. Pseudo-capsicum and S. capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of cherries.

Webster 1913