TOMATOES

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

Noun

tomatoes

plural of tomato

Anagrams

• ostomate

Source: Wiktionary

TOMATO

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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