Definition of "strawberry tomato" []

• Any of several plants of the genus Physalis, as P. pubescens and P. pruinosa, of eastern North America, having yellow flowers and edible yellowish fruit enclosed in a persistent husklike calyx. (noun)
• The fruit of this plant. (noun)

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