tomatillo

English Thesaurus

1. small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk (noun.food)

hypernym	:	solanaceous vegetable,
definition	:	any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon (noun.food)

part meronym	:	jamberry, mexican husk tomato, physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo,
definition	:	annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes (noun.plant)

2. 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)

3. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible 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)