Tomato meaning
The definition of a tomato is a typically red fruit with juicy insides, used as a vegetable.
An example of a tomato is the main ingredient for marinara sauce.
noun
(slang) A desirable-looking woman.
Lookit the legs on that hot tomato!
noun
(slang) A stupid act or person.
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A red or yellowish fruit with a juicy pulp, used as a vegetable: botanically it is a berry.
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The annual plant (Lycopersicon esculentum) of the nightshade family, on which this berry grows.
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An attractive young woman.
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The fruit of this plant.
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To add tomatoes to (a dish)
verb
A widely cultivated plant (Solanum lycopersicum syn. Lycopersicon esculentum) in the nightshade family, having edible, fleshy, usually red fruit. Tomatoes are native to and were first domesticated in northern South America.
noun
A Linux-based operating system for wireless routers that employ a Broadcom chipset. Derived from the HyperWRT operating system, Tomato offers a firmware upgrade for users who want a usage monitor, more advanced QoS settings and other features not available in the standard router. For more information, visit www.polarcloud.com/tomato. See HyperWRT, OpenWRT and DD-WRT.
Origin of tomato
- Alteration of Spanish tomate from Nahuatl tomatl fleshy globose fruit, tomatillo, tomato
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, xītomatl.
From Wiktionary