Tomato

//təˈmɑː.təʊ// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

    "Her face is on the cover: the Anne Estelle Rice portrait – or the black-eyed Japanese-bobbed head-and-shoulders bit of it – and the square-yoked dress is tomato, or pomegranate, but never persimmon. If it stayed too long in the sun and faded, well yes, maybe then…"

Noun
  1. 1
    A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable wordnet
  3. 3
    The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking. countable, uncountable

    "He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad."

  4. 4
    native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties wordnet
  5. 5
    A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    An attractive woman. countable, slang, uncountable

    "Deborah Harry, the New Wave goddess, is finally admitting -- after all the peroxide and posturing of the 1970's and 80's -- that she's really just a tomato (her word) from Paterson […]."

  2. 7
    A stupid act or person. countable, slang, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    to pelt with tomatoes rare, transitive
  2. 2
    to add tomatoes to (a dish) rare, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl. Compare tomatillo.

Etymology 2

Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl. Compare tomatillo.

Etymology 3

Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl. Compare tomatillo.

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