ground cherry vs tomatillo

tomatillo vs ground cherry

ground cherry and tomatillo both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ground cherry	Yes	No	No	No
tomatillo	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tomatillo is a hyponym of ground cherry; that is, tomatillo 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
tomatillo: 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, Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa, jamberry, miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, Physalis viscosa, yellow henbane.

ground cherry (noun)	tomatillo (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
	Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes

Difference between ground cherry and tomatillo

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