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Chinese lantern

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Definition of Chinese lantern

noun

  • 1a collapsible paper lantern.
  • 2a Eurasian plant with white flowers and globular orange fruits enclosed in an orange-red papery calyx.
    • Physalis alkekengi, family Solanaceae

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