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Meaning of tomatillo

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tomatillo
      n 1: Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having
           yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
           [syn: {tomatillo}, {miltomate}, {purple ground cherry},
           {jamberry}, {Physalis philadelphica}]
      2: annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible
         purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes [syn:
         {tomatillo}, {jamberry}, {Mexican husk tomato}, {Physalis
         ixocarpa}]
      3: small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a
         bladderlike husk [syn: {tomatillo}, {husk tomato}, {Mexican
         husk tomato}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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