Source : WordNet®
tomatillo
n 1: Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having
yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
[syn: {miltomate}, {purple ground cherry}, {jamberry}, {Physalis
philadelphica}]
2: annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible
purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes [syn: {jamberry},
{Mexican husk tomato}, {Physalis ixocarpa}]
3: small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in
a bladderlike husk [syn: {husk tomato}, {Mexican husk
tomato}]