JAMBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jamberry mean? 

• JAMBERRY (noun)
  The noun JAMBERRY has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: JAMBERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAMBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

jamberry; miltomate; Physalis philadelphica; purple ground cherry; tomatillo

Hypernyms ("jamberry" is a kind of...):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

jamberry; Mexican husk tomato; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo

Hypernyms ("jamberry" is a kind of...):

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)

Meronyms (parts of "jamberry"):

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