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tomatoe

tomatoe is the obsolete spelling of tomato.

Meaning of tomato

Noun

tomato (countable and uncountable, plural tomatoes)

  1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
  2. 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.
  3. A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.
  4. (slang) An attractive woman.
    • Deborah Harry, the New Wave goddess, is finally admitting -- after all the peroxide and posturing of the 1970's and 80's -- that she's really just a tomato (her word) from Paterson […].1999 April 4, Frank Decaro, “No Longer the Punch-Line State”, in The New York Times, section 9, page 1
  5. (slang) A stupid act or person.

See all 8 meanings of tomato

Forms of tomatoe

pluraltomatoes

Questions about tomatoe

What is tomatoe the obsolete spelling of?
Tomatoe is the obsolete spelling of tomato.

Words near tomatoe in the dictionary

  1. tomato-phile
  2. tomato-philes
  3. tomato-saucey
  4. tomato-saucy
  5. tomato-y
  6. tomatoe
  7. tomatoed
  8. tomatoes
  9. tomatoey
  10. tomatoier
  11. tomatoiest

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