noun
- Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes.
- synonyms: miltomate, purple ground cherry, jamberry, Physalis philadelphica
- Annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes.
- synonyms: jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa
- Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk.
- synonyms: husk tomato, Mexican husk tomato
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