Noun: Mexican husk tomato
- Annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
"She used fresh Mexican husk tomatoes in her salsa verde";
- tomatillo, jamberry, Physalis ixocarpa
- Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
"She made salsa verde using fresh Mexican husk tomatoes";
- tomatillo, husk tomato
Type of: ground cherry, husk tomato, solanaceous vegetable
Encyclopedia: Mexican husk tomato