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Tomatillo Common

Tomatillo has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

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

3

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

4

A plant of the nightshade family originating in Mexico, Physalis philadelphica, cultivated for its tomato-like green to green-purple fruit surrounded by a thin papery skin.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
ground cherry solanaceous vegetable
Rhyming Words
llo allo ello illo bello pullo cello pollo mello bollo hollo nello yello rollo gello hullo lullo hello lello jello
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