tomatillo

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tomatillo - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tomatillo
      n 1: Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having
           yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
           [syn: tomatillo, miltomate, purple ground cherry,
           jamberry, Physalis philadelphica]
      2: annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible
         purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes [syn:
         tomatillo, jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis   ixocarpa
         ]
      3: small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a
         bladderlike husk [syn: tomatillo, husk tomato, Mexican   husk tomato
         ]