physalis ixocarpa

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1. annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	ground cherry, husk tomato,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	husk tomato, mexican husk tomato, tomatillo,
definition	:	small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk (noun.food)