HUSK TOMATO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does husk tomato mean? 

• HUSK TOMATO (noun)
  The noun HUSK TOMATO has 2 senses:

1. 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

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

  Familiarity information: HUSK TOMATO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUSK TOMATO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ground cherry; husk tomato

Hypernyms ("husk tomato" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "husk tomato"):

downy ground cherry; Physalis pubescens; strawberry tomato (decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk)

bladder cherry; Chinese lantern plant; Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry (Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx)

cape gooseberry; Physalis peruviana; purple ground cherry (annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits)

dwarf cape gooseberry; Physalis pruinosa; strawberry tomato (stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits)

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

jamberry; miltomate; Physalis philadelphica; purple ground cherry; tomatillo (Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes)

Physalis viscosa; yellow henbane (found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries)

Holonyms ("husk tomato" is a member of...):

genus Physalis; Physalis (ground cherries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

husk tomato; Mexican husk tomato; tomatillo

Hypernyms ("husk tomato" 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 ("husk tomato" 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)