| strawberry tomato n. 1. Any of several plants of the genus Physalis, as P. pubescens and P. pruinosa, of eastern North America, having yellow flowers and edible yellowish fruit enclosed in a persistent husklike calyx. 2. The fruit of this plant. |
strawberry tomato
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1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tropical solanaceous annual plant, Physalis peruviana, having bell-shaped whitish-yellow flowers and small edible round yellow berries
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a similar and related plant, Physalis pubescens
3. (Cookery) the fruit of either of these plants, eaten fresh or made into preserves and pickles Also called Cape gooseberry
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| Noun | 1. |  strawberry tomato - stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruitsground cherry, husk tomato - 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 |
| 2. |  strawberry tomato - decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike huskground cherry, husk tomato - 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 |
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