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PHYSALIS PHILADELPHICA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
Synonyms:
jamberry; miltomate; Physalis philadelphica; purple ground cherry; tomatillo
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Hypernyms ("Physalis philadelphica" 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)