tomato

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.

   He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad.

2. 2
   noun

   An attractive woman.

   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 […].

3. 3
   adj

   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…

4. 4
   noun

   mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable

5. 5
   noun

   native to South America

6. 6
   noun

   A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.

7. 7
   noun

   A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.

8. 8
   noun

   A stupid act or person.

Etymology

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