English

A tomato

Noun

tomato ‎(countable and uncountable, plural tomatoes)

1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit
2. The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking
   • 1990, JSG Trading Corp. v. Tray-Wrap, Inc., 917 F.2d 75 (2d Cir. 1990)

     In common parlance tomatoes are vegetables, as the Supreme Court observed long ago [see Nix v. Hedden 149 U.S. 304, 307, 13 S.Ct. 881, 882, 37 L.Ed. 745 (1893)], although botanically speaking they are actually a fruit. [26 Encyclopedia Americana 832 (Int'l. ed. 1981)]. Regardless of classification, people have been enjoying tomatoes for centuries; even Mr. Pickwick, as Dickens relates, ate his chops in "tomata" sauce.

3. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
4. (slang) A desirable-looking woman.

   Lookit the legs on that hot tomato!

5. (slang) A stupid act or person.

Synonyms

• love apple
• wolf’s peach (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tomato ‎(third-person singular simple present tomatos, present participle tomatoing, simple past and past participle tomatoed)

1. (transitive) to pelt with tomatoes
2. (transitive) to add tomatoes to (a dish)

Esperanto

Noun

tomato ‎(accusative singular tomaton, plural tomatoj, accusative plural tomatojn)

1. tomato (fruit)
2. tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum)

Derived terms

• tomata ‎(“made of or related to tomatoes”)

Ido

Noun

tomato (plural tomati)

1. tomato

Japanese

Romanization

tomato

1. rōmaji reading of トマト

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English tomato.

Noun

tomato

1. tomato
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics, ISBN 0-8248-1672-2, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.