Alkekengi

/ˌælkɪˈkɛndʒi/ noun

The winter cherry or ground cherry plant, Physalis alkekengi, used in traditional medicine; also the berry enclosed in a papery husk.

From Arabic al-kakang or Persian origins via Medieval Latin. The name traveled from Middle Eastern and Asian traditional medicine into European herbals, where it was Latinized.

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