purple ground cherry
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Noun | 1. | ![]() ground 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. | purple ground cherry - annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits genus Physalis, Physalis - ground cherries ground 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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