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    TOMATILLO

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike huskplay

    Synonyms:

    husk tomato; Mexican husk tomato; tomatillo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("tomatillo" is a kind of...):

    solanaceous vegetable (any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon)

    Holonyms ("tomatillo" is a part of...):

    jamberry; Mexican husk tomato; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo (annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoesplay

    Synonyms:

    jamberry; Mexican husk tomato; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("tomatillo" 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 "tomatillo"):

    husk tomato; Mexican husk tomato; tomatillo (small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoesplay

    Synonyms:

    jamberry; miltomate; Physalis philadelphica; purple ground cherry; tomatillo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("tomatillo" 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)

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