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purple ground cherry

DEFINITIONS OF: purple ground cherry

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

Synonyms:
Physalis philadelphica, jamberry, miltomate, tomatillo
Type of:
ground cherry, husk tomato
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

n annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

Synonyms:
Physalis peruviana, cape gooseberry
Type of:
ground cherry, husk tomato
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
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