Lexic.us

Definition of Tomatillo

1. Noun. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes.

2. Noun. Annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes.

3. Noun. Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk.

Definition of Tomatillo

1. Noun. A fruit of the genus Physalis, resembling the tomato but surrounded by a thin papery skin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tomatillo

1. [n -LOS or -LOES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tomatillo

tom yam tom yams tom yum toma tomacco tomahawk tomahawk mark tomahawked tomahawking tomahawks

tomaley tomalley tomalleys toman tomans tomatillo (current term) tomatilloes tomatillos tomatinase tomatine

tomato tomato blight tomato can tomato concentrate tomato fruitworm tomato hornworm tomato juice tomato juices tomato ketchup tomato paste

Literary usage of Tomatillo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Eat Your Food! Gastronomical Glory from Garden to Gut: A Coastalfields ...by Aaron Brachfeld, Aaron Brachfeld and Mary Choate, Mary Choate by Aaron Brachfeld, Aaron Brachfeld and Mary Choate, Mary Choate (2007)
"This gives credence to the theory that the tomatillo was present in Aztec lands before the tomato was introduced. From its origins in South America, ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"(tomatillo.) Erect branching annual, 2-9 dm. high, glabrous or merely puberulent ; leaves entire to sharply ..."

3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"tomatillo Herbaceous annual Cultivated and also occasionally occurring on ballast, wharves, and waste ground. Physalis ixocarpa Hornem. ..."

4. Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada by Charles Francis Saunders (1920)
"... New Mexico and Utah resemble tiny tomatoes and go among the Spanish-speaking population under the name of tomatillo, that is, "little tomato. ..."

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