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husk tomato   (TTS Sound)

The noun husk tomato has 2 senses

• 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)


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