tomato

Meanings

Noun

• A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
• The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.
• A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
• A desirable-looking woman.
• A stupid act or person.

Verb

• to pelt with tomatoes
• to add tomatoes to (a dish)

Origin

• Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *tomatl.