purple ground cherry

Noun
  1. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes (synset 112932433)
    is a type 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
    same as: jamberry, miltomate, physalis philadelphica, tomatillo
  2. Annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits (synset 112931839)
    is a type 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
    belongs to: genus physalis, physalis - ground cherries
    same as: cape gooseberry, physalis peruviana

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