Complete Definition of "tomato"

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Image:Tomato.jpg|thumb|A tomato

Pronunciation
(UK) IPA|/t��m��t��/, SAMPA|/t@"mA:t@U/
(US) IPA|/t��meɪt��/, SAMPA|/t@"meIt@U/
audio|en-uk-tomato.ogg|Audio (UK)
audio|en-us-tomato.ogg|Audio (US)

Etymology
From Spanish tomate < Nahuatl tomatl|(xi)tom�tl.

Noun
en-noun|es

  1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit
  2. The savoury fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture

#* Note: The US Supreme Court in ''Nix v. Hedden'' (1893) ruled that a tomato is a vegetable.

  1. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
  2. slang A desirable-looking woman.

#: Lookit the legs on that hot tomato!

  1. slang A stupid act or person.

Derived terms
cherry tomato
tomato paste
tomato sauce
tomato soup

Translations
trans-top|tomato plant
German: Tomatenpflanze f
Icelandic: tómatjurt f
Lithuanian: pomidoras m
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trans-top|tomato
Afrikaans: tamatie
Arabic: ARchar|ب�د�رة unicode|(bandó:ra) f
Armenian: Õ¬Õ¸Õ¬Õ«Õ¯ (lolik)
Bosnian: paradajz#Bosnian|paradajz m
Breton: tomatez italbrac|collective tomatezenn f|s
Catalan: tomàquet m
Chinese: �� (f�nqié), 西红� (xīhóngshì)
Crimean Tatar: domatis
Czech: raj�e n
Danish: tomat c
Dutch: tomaat f
Esperanto: tomato
Finnish: tomaatti
French: tomate f
German: Tomate f, Paradeiser m
Greek: ν�ομά�α (domáta) f, �ομά�α (tomáta) f
Hebrew: ע��נ�� (agvaniya) f
Hindi: �मा�र (t�am�t�ar) m
Hungarian: t+|hu|paradicsom
Icelandic: tómatur m, tómati m (rare)
Indonesian: tomat
Interlingua: tomate
Isthmus Zapotec: bichooxhe
Italian: pomodoro m
Japanese: ��� (tomato)
Korean: ��� (tomato)
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Kurdish:
Latvian: tom�ts m
Lithuanian: pomidoras m
Macedonian: дома�#Macedonian|дома� (domát) m
Maltese: tadama f
Maori: t�mato
Nahuatl: xitomatl|xitom�tl
Northern Sami: tomáhta
Persian: FAchar|گ�ج� �ر�گ� (goujeh farangii)
Polish: pomidor m
Portuguese: tomate m italbrac|fruit, tomateiro m italbrac|plant
Romanian: p�tl�gea ro�ie f, tomat� f
Russian: помидо� (pomidór) m, �ома� (tomát) m
Serbian:

Slovene: paradižnik m
Slovak: paradajka f
Spanish: tomate m
Swahili: nyanya
Swedish: tomat c
Thai: THchar|มะ��ือ��ศ (má-k�ua-têt)
Turkish: domates
Welsh: #Welsh|tomato m/f
Yiddish: פּ�ָ����ָר (pomidor) m
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Category:English nouns with irregular plurals
Category:Fruits
Category:Nahuatl derivations
Category:Pronunciations wildly different across the pond
Category:Vegetables

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Revision and Credits for"tomato"
  • 2007-12-23 23:49 - AutoFormat - gender -{{f}} {{s}} +{{f|s}}, trans link [[Afrikaans]], trans link [[Crimean Tatar]], trans link [[Isthmus Zapotec]], trans link [[Macedonian]], trans link [[Northern Sami]], trans unlink Maori

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