Definitions for tomato

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tomato to·ma·to

Spelling: [tuh-mey-toh, -mah-]

IPA: /təˈmeɪ toʊ, -ˈmɑ-/

Tomato is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in tomato (amoott).

Definitions for tomato

noun

1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Lycopersicon, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico and Central and South America, especially the widely cultivated species L. lycopersicum, bearing a mildly acid, pulpy, usually red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
2. the fruit itself.
3. Older Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a girl or woman.

Origin of tomato

1595-1605; 1915-20 for def 3; earlier tomate Spanish Nahuatl tomatl

Examples for tomato

If you try to get fresh with me I'll paint you blacker—blacker than a—than a tomato could—I will.

Add the vinegar and seasoning, dish in a circle, and pour the tomato over.

The sandwich is made with thick tiles of quality bread and adorned with lettuce and tomato.

Bob Strahan blushed until he was redder than any tomato that ever ripened.

The tomato sauce is ‘gravy’ to many Italian-Americans of a certain class.

Neighboring families war over who makes the best, most authentic, recipe for everything from tomato sauce to minestrone.

Tommy and I would leave just after the tomato harvest
to travel around Italy.

Mongolians bravely swallow a glass of pickled sheep eyeballs mixed into tomato juice to chase away their morning-after blues.

For to throw a tomato at the son of Lawyer Gamely was aiming very high.

A tomato whizzed past his ear and splattered against the wall.