Source : WordNet®

Mexican husk tomato
     n 1: annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible
          purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes [syn: {tomatillo},
           {jamberry}, {Physalis ixocarpa}]
     2: small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in
        a bladderlike husk [syn: {tomatillo}, {husk tomato}]