purple ground cherry

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Noun	1.	purple ground cherry - Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes jamberry, miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, tomatillo 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 cape gooseberry, Physalis peruviana 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