Tomato
[tə'mɑːtəʊ] or [tə'meto]
Definition
(noun.) mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable.
(noun.) native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Love-apple (Lycopersicum esculentum or Solanum esculentum).
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Definition
n. the pulpy edible fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Solanace) or the plant itself native to South America but now much cultivated in Europe—earlier called the 'love-apple':—pl. Toma′toes.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of eating tomatoes, signals the approach of good health. To see them growing, denotes domestic enjoyment and happiness. For a young woman to see ripe ones, foretells her happiness in the married state.
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Examples
- Chops and tomato sauce. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In the course of their correspondence Mr. Sanders had often called her a 'duck,' but never 'chops,' nor yet 'tomato sauce. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Couldn't you find tomato sauce, Barto? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Perhaps if he had been as fond of chops and tomato sauce, he might have called her that, as a term of affection. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Another of the boys had a voice that sounded like something between the ring of an old tomato can and a pewter jug. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A well-known author gives an amusing incident of a dinner party, at which the host offered stewed tomato for apple sauce. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The following cut represents the apparatus: [Illustration] It consists of two tomato cans connected by a tin tube. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Asparagus and tomatoes have over 90 per cent. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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