purple ground cherry

/ˌpʌrpəl graʊnd ˌtʃɛri/
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Other forms: purple ground cherries

Definitions of purple ground cherry
  1. noun
    Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
    synonyms: Physalis philadelphica, jamberry, miltomate, tomatillo
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    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
  2. noun
    annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
    synonyms: Physalis peruviana, cape gooseberry
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    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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