STRAWBERRY TOMATO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strawberry tomato mean? 

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

1. stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits

2. decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRAWBERRY TOMATO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dwarf cape gooseberry; Physalis pruinosa; strawberry tomato

Hypernyms ("strawberry tomato" 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:

Decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

downy ground cherry; Physalis pubescens; strawberry tomato

Hypernyms ("strawberry tomato" 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)