|  tomatillo 
  
 
 1. small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
 • Syn:
 husk tomato, Mexican husk tomato
 • Hypernyms:
 solanaceous vegetable
 • Part Holonyms:
 jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa
 2. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
 • Syn:
 miltomate, purple ground cherry, jamberry, Physalis philadelphica
 • Hypernyms:
 ground cherry, husk tomato
 3. annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
 • Syn:
 jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa
 • Hypernyms:
 ground cherry, husk tomato
 • Part Meronyms:
 husk tomato, Mexican husk tomato
 
 
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