| Noun | 1. purple ground cherry - Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoesjamberry, miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, tomatilloground 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 | | 2.purple ground cherry - annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruitscape gooseberry, Physalis peruvianagenus Physalis, Physalis - ground cherriesground 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 |