ground cherry vs Mexican husk tomato

Mexican husk tomato vs ground cherry

ground cherry and Mexican husk tomato both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ground cherry	Yes	No	No	No
Mexican husk tomato	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Mexican husk tomato is a hyponym of ground cherry; that is, Mexican husk tomato is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ground cherry:

ground cherry: any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers
Mexican husk tomato: annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes

Other hyponyms of ground cherry include downy ground cherry, Physalis pubescens, strawberry tomato, bladder cherry, Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi, winter cherry, cape gooseberry, Physalis peruviana, purple ground cherry, dwarf cape gooseberry, Physalis pruinosa, strawberry tomato, jamberry, Physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo, jamberry, miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo, Physalis viscosa, yellow henbane.

ground cherry (noun)	Mexican husk tomato (noun)
any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers	small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
	annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes

Difference between ground cherry and Mexican husk tomato

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