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Noun: Mexican husk tomato
  1. Annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
    - tomatillo, jamberry, Physalis ixocarpa
     
  2. Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
    - tomatillo, husk tomato

Type of: ground cherry, husk tomato, solanaceous vegetable