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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOMA'TO, n. A plant, and its fruit, a species of Solanum. It is called sometimes the love-apple.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable
2: native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties [syn: tomato, love apple, tomato plant, Lycopersicon esculentum]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -toes) Etymology: alteration of earlier tomate, from Spanish, from Nahuatl tomatl Date: 1604 1. the usually large rounded typically red or yellow pulpy berry of an herb (genus Lycopersicon) of the nightshade family native to South America 2. a plant that produces tomatoes; especially one (Lycopersicon esculentum syn. L. lycopersicum) that is a tender perennial widely cultivated as an annual for its edible fruit

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -oes) 1 a glossy red or yellow pulpy edible fruit. 2 a solanaceous plant, Lycopersicon esculentum, bearing this. Derivatives: tomatoey adj. Etymology: 17th-c. tomate, = F or Sp. & Port., f. Mex. tomatl

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Tomato gall (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, or Macrosila, quinquemaculata) which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also potato worm.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tomatoes) Tomatoes are small, soft, red fruit that you can eat raw in salads or cooked as a vegetable. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Love-apple (Lycopersicum esculentum or Solanum esculentum).

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