gooseberry

From goose + berry. It is possible that the first element was originally something related to the gros- of French groseille and/or the kruis- of Dutch kruisbes but has been altered by folk etymology.

Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:

Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)


Cape gooseberry

en-noun

Cape gooseberry (plural Cape gooseberries)

Physalis peruviana
Physalis peruviana#Translingual

A tropical South American plant of species Physalis peruviana, with a bright yellow, edible fruit.


tomatillo

tomatillo (plural tomatillos or tomatilloes)

tomatillos (plural)
tomatilloes (plural)

Borrowed from Spanish tomatillo, diminutive of tomate (“tomato”), ultimately from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.

A plant of the nightshade family originating in Mexico, Physalis philadelphica, cultivated for its tomato-like green to green-purple fruit surrounded by a thin papery skin.


Japanese lantern

Japanese lantern (plural Japanese lanterns)

Alkekengi officinarum
Alkekengi officinarum#Translingual

Physalis alkekengi
Physalis alkekengi#Translingual

bladder cherry (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi).


winter cherry

bladder cherry or Chinese lantern (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi)

Solanum pseudocapsicum (Jerusalem cherry)

Withania somnifera
Withania somnifera#Translingual


bladder cherry

bladder cherry (plural bladder cherries)

A plant, Alkekengi officinarum (syn. Physalis alkekengi), having a bright paper-like covering over its fruit, native to southern Europe.


Chinese lantern

Chinese lantern (plural Chinese lanterns)

A bladder cherry (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi).


goldenberry

A plant of species Physalis peruviana and its fruit.


physalis

From New Latin Physalis, coined by Linnaeus from Ancient Greek φυσαλλίς (phusallís, “bladder, wind instrument”), from φυσιόω (phusióō, “to puff up, blow up”), φυσώ (phusṓ).

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‘I going cook with them physalis for weeks.’

2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 350:

Roland sat on the edge of the bed and ate all the courtesy chocolates, kiwis, physalises and salted nuts and drank a litre of carbonated water.

Fruit of such a plant, a yellow-orange berry, typically firm in texture with a mild, refreshing acidity.


groundcherry

long-leaved groundcherry (Physalis longifolia

Any of various plants in the genus Physalis and their fruits


alkekengi

Through French alkékenge, Spanish alquequenje, from Arabic كَاكَنْج (kākanj).


capulin

From Spanish capulín, from Classical Nahuatl capolin.

Muntingia calabura
Muntingia calabura#Translingual

A calabur tree (Muntingia calabura, sole species of Muntingia).


strawberry tomato

en-noun

strawberry tomato (plural strawberry tomatoes)


lantern berry

A perennial plant (Luzuriaga parviflora) from New Zealand


yellow nightshade

yellow nightshade (plural yellow nightshades)

Solanum villosum
Solanum villosum#Translingual


Brazil cherry

Synonym of Cape gooseberry (“Physalis peruviana”)


Carpenter's groundcherry

Carpenter's groundcherry (plural Carpenter's groundcherries)

Calliphysalis carpenteri, a perennial plant in the family Solanaceae.