tomatoes
tomatoes is the plural of tomato.
tomatoes is the plural of tomatoe.
Meaning of tomato
Noun
tomato (countable and uncountable, plural tomatoes)
- A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- golden apple, love apple, wolf's peach
- A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.
- 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
- A stupid act or person.
Phrases with tomatoes
- sea tomatoes
- beef tomatoes
- bush tomatoes
- husk tomatoes
- pear tomatoes
- plum tomatoes
- tree tomatoes
- grape tomatoes
- cherry tomatoes
- currant tomatoes
- Italian tomatoes
- heritage tomatoes
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Questions about tomatoes
- What is tomatoes the plural of?
- Tomatoes is the plural of tomato.
Words near tomatoes in the dictionary
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