1. (noun) 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

• ground cherry

2. (noun) small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk

• mexican husk tomato
• tomatillo

1. (noun) 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

• bladder cherry
• chinese lantern plant
• physalis alkekengi
• winter cherry
• cape gooseberry
• physalis peruviana
• purple ground cherry
• downy ground cherry
• physalis pubescens
• strawberry tomato
• dwarf cape gooseberry
• physalis pruinosa
• strawberry tomato
• jamberry
• mexican husk tomato
• physalis ixocarpa
• tomatillo
• jamberry
• miltomate
• physalis philadelphica
• purple ground cherry
• tomatillo
• physalis viscosa
• yellow henbane

1. (noun) 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

• genus physalis
• physalis

1. (noun) 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

• herb
• herbaceous plant

2. (noun) small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk

• solanaceous vegetable