tomatillo (n.)

  1. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes

    [ Syn: miltomate , purple ground cherry , jamberry , physalis philadelphica ]

  2. annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes

    [ Syn: jamberry , mexican husk tomato , physalis ixocarpa ]

  3. small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk

    [ Syn: husk tomato , mexican husk tomato ]

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