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See tōmato

English

Image:Tomato.jpg|thumb|A tomato

Pronunciation


Etymology

From Spanish tomate < Nahuatl tomatl|(xi)tomātl.

Noun

  1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit
  2. The savoury fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture
  3. * Note: The US Supreme Court in 1 ruled that a tomato is a vegetable.
  4. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
  5. A desirable-looking woman.
  6. : Lookit the legs on that hot tomato!
  7. A stupid act or person.


Derived terms


Translations

  • German: {{t+|de|Tomate|f}}, {{t+|de|Tomatenflanze|f}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Icelandic: tómatjurt
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|tráta|m|xs=Irish}}
  • Lithuanian: pomidoras
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|tomate|m}}

Category:English nouns with irregular plurals Category:Fruits Category:Nahuatl derivations Category:Pronunciations wildly different across the pond Category:Vegetables

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tomato \To*ma"to\, n.; pl. Tomatoes. [Sp. or Pg. tomate, of
American Indian origin; cf. Mexican tomail.] (Bot.)
The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family ({Lycopersicum
esculentun}); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is
called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened
form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or
yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked.
[1913 Webster]

Tomato gall (Zool.), a large gall consisting of a mass of
irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines.
They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and
produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly
(Lasioptera vitis).

Tomato sphinx (Zool.), the adult or imago of the {tomato
worm}. It closely resembles the tobacco hawk moth. Called
also tomato hawk moth. See Illust. of Hawk moth.

Tomato worm (Zool.), the larva of a large hawk moth
(Manduca quinquemaculata, Protoparce quinquemaculata,
Sphinx quinquemaculata, or Macrosila quinquemaculata)
which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato
plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also
tomato hornworm and potato worm, and in the Southern
U. S. tobacco fly.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet tomato
n 1: mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable
2: native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
[syn: love apple, tomato plant, {Lycopersicon
esculentum}]
[also: tomatoes (pl)]
Moby Dictionary
Irish potato , Jane , Kraut , aubergine , babe , baby , bawd , beans ,
biddy , bird , bitch , broad , cabbage , call girl , chick , colleen ,
cutie , dame , damoiselle , damsel , demoiselle , doll , drab , eggplant ,
fille , filly , frail , gal , girl , girlie , greens , heifer , hen ,
hoyden , jeune fille , jill , junior miss , lass , lassie , legumes ,
little missy , love apple , mad apple , mademoiselle , maid , maiden ,
minx , miss , missy , nymphet , piece , pieplant , potato , potherbs ,
poule , produce , rhubarb , romp , schoolgirl , schoolmaid , schoolmiss ,
skirt , slip , spud , subdeb , subdebutante , subteen , subteener , tater ,
teenybopper , tomboy , vegetables , virgin , wench , white potato ,
young creature , young thing


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