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MEXICAN HUSK TOMATO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
Synonyms:
husk tomato; Mexican husk tomato; tomatillo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("Mexican husk tomato" is a kind of...):
solanaceous vegetable (any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon)
Holonyms ("Mexican husk tomato" is a part of...):
jamberry; Mexican husk tomato; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo (annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
Synonyms:
jamberry; Mexican husk tomato; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mexican husk tomato" is a kind of...):
ground cherry; husk tomato (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)
Meronyms (parts of "Mexican husk tomato"):
husk tomato; Mexican husk tomato; tomatillo (small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk)