tomato

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A soft, round red fruit eaten raw or cooked, used as a vegetable.

   He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad.

2. 2
   noun

   The plant that produces this fruit.

   She grows tomatoes in pots on the balcony.

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

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