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tomatoes

Variant of tomato

noun pl. tomatoes

  1. a red or yellowish fruit with a juicy pulp, used as a vegetable: botanically it is a berry
  2. the annual plant (Lycopersicon esculentum) of the nightshade family, on which this berry grows
  3. Slang an attractive young woman

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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