tomato
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Pronunciation [change]
- (UK) IPA: /təˈmɑːtəʊ/, SAMPA: /t@"mA:t@U/
- (US) IPA: /təˈmeɪtoʊ/, SAMPA: /t@"meIt@U/
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Noun [change]
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- (countable) A tomato is a red, roundish fruit, roughly the size of a fist. It does not have a core nor pips.
- Bad singers or musicians used to be thrown tomatoes at.
- (countable) A tomato is also the plant bearing tomatoes.
- Tomatoes were imported from Central America to Europe in the sixteenth century.
- (uncountable) The matter which tomatoes are made of.
- Ketchup sauce contains some amount of tomato.
- (uncountable) A reddish color, the color of a tomato.
- Tomato is a color that looks like oxygened blood.
- (slang) (figurative) A sexy woman.
- (slang) (figurative) A stupid thing or person.