- 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
--1 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
--1 is a member of Physalis, genus Physalis
--1 has particulars: - tomatillo, husk tomato, Mexican husk tomato - small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
--2 is a kind of solanaceous vegetable
--2 is a part of tomatillo, jamberry, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa