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Tomato
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- 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…"
- 1 A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit. countable, uncountable
- 2 mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable wordnet
- 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 native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties wordnet
- 5 A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato. countable, uncountable
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- 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 […]."
- 7 A stupid act or person. countable, slang, uncountable
- 1 to pelt with tomatoes rare, transitive
- 2 to add tomatoes to (a dish) rare, transitive
Etymology
Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl. Compare tomatillo.
Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl. Compare tomatillo.
Variant of earlier tomate, from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *toma-tl. Compare tomatillo.
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