tomato
/təˈmeɪ.toʊ/ noun A1- A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
- 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.· He was eating a tomato when his boss called him.
- A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.
- An attractive woman. · 2015 19 Old-Fashioned Compliments We Should Bring Back That shirt makes you look like such a glorious tomato.
- A stupid act or person.
Plural tomatoes
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Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.
In the evening, I make tomato soup with my mom.
They grow red tomatoes and green beans.
The tomatoes grow big and tall.
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