- Mexican ground cherry
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tomatillo.
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Universalium. 2010.
Mexican ground cherry
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Mexican ground cherry — tomatillo … Useful english dictionary
ground cherry — noun 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 • Syn: ↑husk tomato • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Hyponyms … Useful english dictionary
purple ground cherry — noun 1. annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits • Syn: ↑cape gooseberry, ↑Physalis peruviana • Hypernyms: ↑ground cherry, ↑husk tomato • Member Holonyms: ↑Physalis, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Mexican — apple (white sapote); Mexican ground cherry (tomatillo); Mexican hairless (dog used to herd cattle and keep ranchers company in bed as its hairlessness makes it flealess and its body temperature is higher than ours); Mexican jumping beans… … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
Mexican husk tomato — noun 1. small edible yellow to purple tomato like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk • Syn: ↑tomatillo, ↑husk tomato • Hypernyms: ↑solanaceous vegetable • Part Holonyms: ↑tomatillo, ↑jamberry, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
tomatillo — noun (plural los) Etymology: Spanish, diminutive of tomate Date: circa 1913 the small round yellow, purplish, and especially pale green edible sticky fruit of a Mexican ground cherry (Physalis ixocarpa syn. P. philadelphica); also the plant that… … New Collegiate Dictionary
tomatillo — /toh meuh tee oh, teel yoh/, n., pl. tomatilloes, tomatillos. a plant, Physalis ixocarpa, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico, having yellow flowers with five blackish spots in the throat and bluish, sticky berries in a purple veined calyx … Universalium
husk tomato — noun 1. 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 • Syn: ↑ground cherry • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant •… … Useful english dictionary
tomatillo — noun 1. small edible yellow to purple tomato like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk • Syn: ↑husk tomato, ↑Mexican husk tomato • Hypernyms: ↑solanaceous vegetable • Part Holonyms: ↑jamberry, ↑Mexican husk tomato … Useful english dictionary
jamberry — noun 1. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes • Syn: ↑tomatillo, ↑miltomate, ↑purple ground cherry, ↑Physalis philadelphica • Hypernyms: ↑ground cherry, ↑husk tomato … Useful english dictionary
