A plant of the nightshade family originating in Mexico, Physalis philadelphica, cultivated for its tomato-like green to green-purple fruit surrounded by a thin papery skin.
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"Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes"
"annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes"
"small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk"