strawberry tomato

Definitions of strawberry tomato
  1. noun
    stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
    synonyms: Physalis pruinosa, dwarf 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
  2. noun
    decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk
    synonyms: Physalis pubescens, downy ground cherry
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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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