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tomatillo
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noun pl. tomatillos
- a small, round fruit with a papery husk, used as a vegetable in Mexican cooking: yellow to purple when ripe, but cooked while still green
- the plant (Physalis ixocarpa) on which this fruit grows
See tomatillo in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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