strawberry tomato

strawberry tomato

n.1. Any of several North American ground cherries, especially Physalis pruinosa, having edible yellowish fruit.2. The fruit of any of these plants.

strawberry tomato

n 1. (Plants) a tropical solanaceous annual plant, Physalis peruviana, having bell-shaped whitish-yellow flowers and small edible round yellow berries 2. (Plants) a similar and related plant, Physalis pubescens 3. (Cookery) the fruit of either of these plants, eaten fresh or made into preserves and pickles Also called: Cape gooseberry

straw′berry toma′to

n. 1. the small, edible, tomatolike fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family. 2. the plant itself.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	strawberry tomato - stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruitsdwarf cape gooseberry, Physalis pruinosaground 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.	strawberry tomato - decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike huskdowny ground cherry, Physalis pubescensground 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