husk tomato
       n 1: 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 [syn: ground cherry]
       2: small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in
          a bladderlike husk [syn: tomatillo, Mexican husk tomato]