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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 | ||
ground cherry | ||
herbaceous plant, herb aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities | ||
genus physalis, physalis ground cherries | ||
downy ground cherry, physalis pubescens, strawberry tomato decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk | ||
bladder cherry, chinese lantern plant, physalis alkekengi, winter cherry Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx | ||
cape gooseberry, physalis peruviana, purple ground cherry annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits | ||
dwarf cape gooseberry, physalis pruinosa, strawberry tomato stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits | ||
physalis ixocarpa, jamberry, mexican husk tomato, tomatillo small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk | ||
miltomate, physalis philadelphica, jamberry, purple ground cherry, tomatillo small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk | ||
husk tomato - small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk | ||
tomatillo, Mexican husk tomato | ||
solanaceous vegetable any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon |