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tomato
/təˈmɑː.təʊ/
noun 5verb 2adj 1
Collocations
10(noun.)
ADJ
ripe | green | rotten, squashed | cherry, plum | sundried, tinned
VERB + TOMATO
eat, have | chop, peel, slice | grow
TOMATO + NOUN
juice, ketchup, paste, puree, salad, sauce, soup | plant
Definitions
noun
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.
He was eating a tomato when his boss called him.
3
A shade of red, the colour typical of a ripe tomato.
4
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 […].
When she left the room, I asked Robert, “Who's the tomato?” “Marisa. She's from Mexico.” He had a telltale smile on his face.
5
A stupid act or person.
adj
1
Of a shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
Her face is on the cover: the Anne Estelle Rice portrait – or the black-eyed Japanese-bobbed head-and-shoulders bit of it – and the square-yoked dress is tomato, or pomegranate, but never persimmon. If it stayed too long in the sun and faded, well yes, maybe then…
And she’d slathered a heavy layer of foundation over the raw skin of her face with the end result being a complexion that was more tomato than orange.
verb
1
to pelt with tomatoes
2
to add tomatoes to (a dish)
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He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad.
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He was eating a tomato when his boss called him.
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In common parlance tomatoes are vegetables, as the Supreme Court observed long ago [see Nix v. Hedden 149 U.S. 304, 307, 13 S.Ct. 881, 882, 37 L.Ed. 745 (1893)], although botanically speaking they are
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Her face is on the cover: the Anne Estelle Rice portrait – or the black-eyed Japanese-bobbed head-and-shoulders bit of it – and the square-yoked dress is tomato, or pomegranate, but never persimmon. I
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And she’d slathered a heavy layer of foundation over the raw skin of her face with the end result being a complexion that was more tomato than orange.
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This afternoon, though, she saunters in, draped in a dress the color of a ripe tomato, with a hat to match, her hair twisted underneath in some kind of fashionable up-do that seems impossible to creat
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