tomatillo

Noun

• small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk

• annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  husk tomato , Mexican husk tomato , jamberry , Physalis ixocarpa , miltomate , purple ground cherry , Physalis philadelphica