Physalis ixocarpa

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Physalis ixocarpa - annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoesMexican husk tomato, tomatillo, jamberryhusk tomato, Mexican husk tomato, tomatillo - small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike huskground 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