'Tomato' definitions:
Definition of 'tomato'
From: WordNet
noun
Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable
noun
Native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties [syn: tomato, love apple, tomato plant, Lycopersicon esculentum]
Definition of 'Tomato'
From: GCIDE
- Tomato \To*ma"to\, n.; pl. Tomatoes. [Sp. or Pg. tomate, of American Indian origin; cf. Mexican tomail.] (Bot.) The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family ({Lycopersicum esculentun}); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked. [1913 Webster]
- Tomato gall (Zool.), a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines. They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly (Lasioptera vitis).
- Tomato sphinx (Zool.), the adult or imago of the {tomato worm}. It closely resembles the tobacco hawk moth. Called also tomato hawk moth. See Illust. of Hawk moth.
- Tomato worm (Zool.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Manduca quinquemaculata, Protoparce quinquemaculata, Sphinx quinquemaculata, or Macrosila quinquemaculata) which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also tomato hornworm and potato worm, and in the Southern U. S. tobacco fly. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Synonyms of 'tomato'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aubergine,
- babe,
- baby,
- bawd,
- beans,
- biddy,
- bird,
- bitch,
- broad,
- cabbage,
- call girl,
- chick,
- colleen,
- cutie,
- dame,
- damoiselle,
- damsel,
- demoiselle,
- doll,
- drab,
- eggplant,
- fille,
- filly,
- frail,
- gal,
- girl,
- girlie,
- greens,
- heifer,
- hen,
- hoyden,
- Irish potato,
- Jane,
- jeune fille,
- jill,
- junior miss,
- Kraut,
- lass,
- lassie,
- legumes,
- little missy,
- love apple,
- mad apple,
- mademoiselle,
- maid,
- maiden,
- minx,
- miss,
- missy,
- nymphet,
- piece,
- pieplant,
- potato,
- potherbs,
- poule,
- produce,
- rhubarb,
- romp,
- schoolgirl,
- schoolmaid,
- schoolmiss,
- skirt,
- slip,
- spud,
- subdeb,
- subdebutante,
- subteen,
- subteener,
- tater,
- teenybopper,
- tomboy,
- vegetables,
- virgin,
- wench,
- white potato,
- young creature,
- young thing
Words containing 'Tomato'
- Tomatoes,
- Strawberry tomato,
- Tomato gall,
- Tomato sphinx,
- Tomato worm,
- beefsteak tomato,
- cherry tomato,
- husk tomato,
- plum tomato,
- stuffed tomato,
- tomato blight,
- tomato concentrate,
- tomato fruitworm,
- tomato hornworm,
- tomato juice,
- tomato ketchup,
- tomato paste,
- tomato plant,
- tomato sauce,
- tomato streak,
- tomato yellows,
- tree tomato,
- cold stuffed tomato,
- hot stuffed tomato,
- mexican husk tomato,
- tomato hawk moth,
- bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich