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

Derived forms: tomatillos

Type of: ground cherry, husk tomato, solanaceous vegetable

Encyclopedia: Tomatillo