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Tweet n. 1. Any of various plants of the genus Physalis in the nightshade family, chiefly of the Americas, having small, globose, fleshy fruit enclosed in a papery, bladderlike, persistent calyx. 2. The fruit of any of these plants. In both senses also called husk tomato. |
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