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JAMBERRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

jamberry; Mexican husk tomato; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("jamberry" 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 "jamberry"):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes

Synonyms:

jamberry; miltomate; Physalis philadelphica; purple ground cherry; tomatillo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("jamberry" 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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