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    PHYSALIS PHILADELPHICA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Physalis philadelphica" 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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