WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Mexican husk tomato
    n 1: annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible
         purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes [syn:
         tomatillo, jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis
         ixocarpa]
    2: small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a
       bladderlike husk [syn: tomatillo, husk tomato, Mexican
       husk tomato]