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

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Usage examples (6)
  • So the true tomato was called xitomatl (today's jitomate) meaning a round, plump fruit with a navel, and the husk tomato, or tomatillo, was called miltomate, meaning a...
  • Wild husk tomatoes, many of them not much bigger than large purple grapes, are still called miltomate.
  • Okay, so in miltomate or tomatillo, there's an appeal to tomato of course.
  • This sauce is traditionally made from a little American fruit, the miltomate.
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