Tomato

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tomato \To*ma"to\, n.; pl. {Tomatoes}. [Sp. or Pg. tomate, of
     American Indian origin; cf. Mexican tomail.] (Bot.)
     The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family ({Lycopersicum
     esculentun}); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is
     called also {love apple}, is usually of a rounded, flattened
     form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or


     yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Tomato gall} (Zool.), a large gall consisting of a mass of
        irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines.
        They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and
        produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly
        ({Lasioptera vitis}).
  
     {Tomato sphinx} (Zool.), the adult or imago of the {tomato
        worm}. It closely resembles the tobacco hawk moth. Called
        also {tomato hawk moth}. See Illust. of {Hawk moth}.
  
     {Tomato worm} (Zool.), the larva of a large hawk moth
        ({Manduca quinquemaculata}, {Protoparce quinquemaculata},
        {Sphinx quinquemaculata}, or {Macrosila quinquemaculata})
        which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato
        plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also
        {tomato hornworm} and {potato worm}, and in the Southern
        U. S. {tobacco fly}.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tomato
       n 1: mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable
       2: native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
          [syn: {love apple}, {tomato plant}, {Lycopersicon
          esculentum}]
       [also: {tomatoes} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "tomato":
     Irish potato, Jane, Kraut, aubergine, babe, baby, bawd, beans,
     biddy, bird, bitch, broad, cabbage, call girl, chick, colleen,
     cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, doll, drab, eggplant,
     fille, filly, frail, gal, girl, girlie, greens, heifer, hen,
     hoyden, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lass, lassie, legumes,
     little missy, love apple, mad apple, mademoiselle, maid, maiden,
     minx, miss, missy, nymphet, piece, pieplant, potato, potherbs,
     poule, produce, rhubarb, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss,
     skirt, slip, spud, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, tater,
     teenybopper, tomboy, vegetables, virgin, wench, white potato,
     young creature, young thing
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Tomato, AR
    Zip code(s): 72381