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MILTOMATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does miltomate mean?
• MILTOMATE (noun)
The noun MILTOMATE has 1 sense:
1. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
Familiarity information: MILTOMATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
jamberry; miltomate; Physalis philadelphica; purple ground cherry; tomatillo
Hypernyms ("miltomate" is a kind of...):
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)
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