Synonyms of TOMATILLOS

noun

1. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes

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   Also: purple ground cherry, physalis philadelphica.

   Not playable in Scrabble US: MILTOMATE, JAMBERRY.

2. annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes

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   Also: mexican husk tomato, physalis ixocarpa.

   Not playable in Scrabble US: JAMBERRY.

3. small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk

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   Also: husk tomato, mexican husk tomato.