Meaning of tomato | Babel Free

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1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
   countable, uncountable
2. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit
3. tomate;___ soup → sopa de ___.
4. The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
   countable, uncountable
5. The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking
6. A widely cultivated plant (Solanum lycopersicum syn. Lycopersicon esculentum)in the nightshade family, having edible, fleshy, usually red fruit. The tomato is native to and was first domesticated in northern South America.
   (Solanum lycopersicum
7. A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.
   countable, uncountable
8. A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato
9. The fruit of this plant.
10. An attractive woman.
    countable, slang, uncountable
11. An attractive woman
12. (Plants) a solanaceous plant, Lycopersicon (or Lycopersicum) esculentum, of South America, widely cultivated for its red fleshy many-seeded edible fruits
    Lycopersicon
13. A stupid act or person.
    countable, slang, uncountable
14. A stupid act or person
15. (Plants) the fruit of this plant, which has slightly acid-tasting flesh and is eaten in salads, as a vegetable, etc
16. slang US and Canadian a girl or woman
    slang
17. a large, mildly acid, pulpy berry, red to red-yellow when ripe, eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
18. the plant bearing this berry, Lycopersicon esculentum, of the nightshade family.
    Lycopersicon esculentum,
19. Older Slang. a girl or woman.
20. A. N (tomatoes (pl)) (= fruit) → tomate m, jitomate m (Mex); (= plant) → tomatera f
    N

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Examples

“He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad.”

“He was eating a tomato when his boss called him.”

“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.”

“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 […].”

“When she left the room, I asked Robert, “Who's the tomato?” “Marisa. She's from Mexico.” He had a telltale smile on his face.”

“2015 19 Old-Fashioned Compliments We Should Bring Back That shirt makes you look like such a glorious tomato.”

““Who's the tomato?” a cop said as Evie walked past. “Her? She's the stiff's niece,” another cop answered.”

“When did this happen last, a tomato he's hardly met going to so much trouble? Ever?”

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