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

3 senses of tomatillo

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)

Sense 2
tomatillo, jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa -- (annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid 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)

Sense 3
tomatillo, husk tomato, Mexican husk tomato -- (small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk)
       => solanaceous vegetable -- (any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon)