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PHYSALIS IXOCARPA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("Physalis ixocarpa" 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 "Physalis ixocarpa"):
husk tomato; Mexican husk tomato; tomatillo (small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk)
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