1. Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
   "She made salsa verde using fresh husk tomatoes"; "She made salsa verde using fresh Mexican husk tomatoes";
   - tomatillo, Mexican husk tomato
    
2. 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
   "Children enjoyed peeling back the papery husks of husk tomatoes to reveal the fruit inside";
   - ground cherry

Derived forms: husk tomatoes

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, solanaceous vegetable

Part of: genus Physalis, jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis, Physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo

Encyclopedia: Husk tomato