tomatillos

Noun

• Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
• annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
• small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
• plural of tomatillo

Synonyms

husk tomato, jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, miltomate, Physalis ixocarpa, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo