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noun Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
noun annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
noun small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
originBorrowed from Spanish tomatillo, diminutive of tomate (“tomato”), ultimately from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.
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