tomato
A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
Other meanings
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.”
A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.
Kinds of tomato
- cherry tomato
Example sentences
Word history
From Spanish "tomate".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tomato” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.