PHYSALIS IXOCARPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Physalis ixocarpa mean? 

• PHYSALIS IXOCARPA (noun)
  The noun PHYSALIS IXOCARPA has 1 sense:

1. annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes

  Familiarity information: PHYSALIS IXOCARPA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSALIS IXOCARPA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

jamberry; Mexican husk tomato; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo

Hypernyms ("Physalis ixocarpa" 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)

Meronyms (parts of "Physalis ixocarpa"):

husk tomato; Mexican husk tomato; tomatillo (small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk)