tomatillo   (TTS Sound)

The noun tomatillo has 3 senses

• tomatillo, miltomate, purple ground cherry, jamberry, Physalis philadelphica -- (Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes)


• tomatillo, jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa -- (annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes)


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