jamberry

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstomatillomiltomatepurple ground cherryPhysalis philadelphica

   Broaderground cherry
2. 2.

   annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes

   SynonymstomatilloMexican husk tomatoPhysalis ixocarpa

   Broaderground cherry

   Partstomatillo

Other forms of jamberry

plural

jamberries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jamberry

What does jamberry mean?

jamberry means "Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jamberry?

jamberry has 3 syllables: jam-ber-ry. The stress falls on "jam".

What is another word for jamberry?

Close synonyms include tomatillo, miltomate, purple ground cherry, Physalis philadelphica, tomatillo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jamberry a common word?

jamberry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.