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strawberry tomato

DEFINITIONS OF: strawberry tomato

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n stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits

Synonyms:
Physalis pruinosa, dwarf 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

n decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk

Synonyms:
Physalis pubescens, downy ground cherry
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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