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husk tomato

DEFINITIONS OF: husk tomato

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n any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers

Synonyms:
ground cherry
Types:
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Physalis pubescens, downy ground cherry, strawberry tomato
decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk
Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi, bladder cherry, winter cherry
Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
Physalis peruviana, cape gooseberry, purple ground cherry
annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
Physalis pruinosa, dwarf cape gooseberry, strawberry tomato
stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa, jamberry, tomatillo
annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
Physalis philadelphica, jamberry, miltomate, purple ground cherry, tomatillo
Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
Physalis viscosa, yellow henbane
found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries
Type of:
herb, herbaceous plant
a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

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

Synonyms:
Mexican husk tomato, tomatillo
Type of:
solanaceous vegetable
any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon
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