Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
2. The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
3. A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.
4. (slang) An attractive woman.
5. (slang) A stupid act or person.
6. Of a shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
7. (transitive, rare) to pelt with tomatoes
8. (transitive, rare) to add tomatoes to (a dish)

Example Sentences

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.

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

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.

“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?

Word Forms

• tomatoes
• tomatoe
• tomater
• 'mater
• more tomato
• most tomato
• tomatos
• tomatoing
• tomatoed

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Use tomato when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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