Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun physalis_philadelphica

1 sense of physalis philadelphica

Sense 1
tomatillo, miltomate, purple ground cherry, jamberry, Physalis philadelphica -- (Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes)
       => 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)