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TOMATO
tomato
(noun) mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable
tomato, love apple, tomato plant, Lycopersicon esculentum
(noun) native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tomato (countable and uncountable, plural tomatoes)
A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
Synonyms: love apple (informal), wolf's peach (obsolete)
Meronym: lycopene
A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
(slang) A desirable-looking woman.
(slang) A stupid act or person.
Verb
tomato (third-person singular simple present tomatos, present participle tomatoing, simple past and past participle tomatoed)
(transitive) to pelt with tomatoes
(transitive) to add tomatoes to (a dish)
Source: Wiktionary
To*ma"to, n.; pl. Tomatoes. Etym: [Sp. or Pg. tomate, of American Indian origin; cf. Mexican tomail.] (Bot.)
Definition: 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. Tomato gall (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, or Macrosila, quinquemaculata) which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also potato worm.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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