Mexican husk tomato

Mexican husk tomato
    n 1: annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible
         purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes [syn:
         {tomatillo}, {jamberry}, {Mexican husk tomato}, {Physalis
         ixocarpa}]
    2: small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a
       bladderlike husk [syn: {tomatillo}, {husk tomato}, {Mexican
       husk tomato}]