NOUN | plant | Physalis philadelphica, tomatillo, miltomate, purple ground cherry, jamberry | Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes |
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Meaning | Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes. | |
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Synonyms | tomatillo, miltomate, purple ground cherry, jamberry | |
Broader | 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 |
Spanish | miltomate, physalis ixocarpa, Physalis philadelphica | |
Catalan | miltomate |
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