Skip to main content
tomato

tomato

428 1.0
A juicy round fruit usually red, sometimes yellow, eaten raw or cooked
  • noun
  • /təˈmeɪtoʊ/
translation icon : tomate
  • By mid-month, there were 194 tiny green tomatoes swelling on my seven plants.
  • tomato sauce
  • fresh tomatoes
  • lycopene in tomatoes

I'll have a number three with no cheese, no tomato and no lettuce.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • You can get peeled fresh tomato and cut it in cubes.

  • A man who has raised prize tomatoes must know something, something of great value perhaps.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • In goes our tomato and on to the next.

  • How do you like the tomato?

  • Remember, I have plans to enter tomatoes in the county fair this year.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • A hot dog with tomato and onion sauce

  • I'll have a number three with no cheese, no tomato and no lettuce.

  • But yeah, it's got lettuce, tomato, cheese and beef.

  • Urbony meatballs and a rich tomato broth topped with sour cream.

  • The salad was vibrant with fresh greens and juicy tomato slices.

Synonyms

cherry tomato
vstomato
9 1.4

A small round sweet tomato you eat whole in salads or as a snack

is the general fruit used both raw and cooked rather than a tiny snack type
plum tomato
vstomato
2 2.2

An oval tomato often used for sauces and canning

is the round, commonly eaten fruit not specialized for canning
beefsteak tomato
vstomato
1 2.7

A very large tomato that has thick, juicy flesh and is often eaten sliced in sandwiches or salads

is the common fruit not limited to large slicing types
love apple
vstomato
  • Archaic
1 9.9

An old name for a tomato

is the common modern name used in everyday cooking

Compounds

20 1.0

A sauce made from cooked tomatoes and herbs for pasta and other dishes

11 1.0

A drink made from tomatoes used for cooking or drinking

A small round sweet tomato you eat whole in salads or as a snack

6 1.5

A thick, concentrated food made from cooked tomatoes used to add a strong tomato flavour

4 1.0

A plant that grows red round fruits people eat

2 2.2

An oval tomato often used for sauces and canning

A very large tomato that has thick, juicy flesh and is often eaten sliced in sandwiches or salads

A hollow tomato filled with rice, meat and vegetables and served hot or cold

A thick red sauce made from tomatoes and used on foods like fries

tomato hornworm
  • Specialized
1 8.5

A large green caterpillar with white stripes that eats tomato and potato plants

tomato blight
  • Specialized
1 4.5

A disease that makes tomato leaves, stems or fruit rot

A tomato hollowed out and filled with a salad, served cold

A sandwich with bacon, lettuce and tomato that often has mayonnaise

A small edible fruit like a tomato, wrapped in a dry papery husk

A plant that produces small edible fruits like tiny tomatoes inside a dry papery husk

A tomato hollowed out, filled with a savory mix, and baked briefly

6.9

A small round fruit like a green tomato with a thin papery case

A thick red paste made by removing most water from tomatoes to add flavour

tomato fruitworm
  • Specialized
8.7

A caterpillar that eats and damages crops like tomatoes and corn

tomato streak
  • Specialized
8.2

A plant disease that makes tomato and other crops have pale lines on leaves and reduces how much they produce

tomato worm
  • Specialized
7.2

A large green caterpillar with white stripes that eats tomato and tobacco plants

tomato yellows
  • Specialized
7.9

A virus infection that makes tomato leaves turn yellow and plants grow slowly

tree tomato
  • Australian
7.8

Small tree from South America that grows egg-shaped reddish fruit you can eat

strawberry tomato
  • Specialized
9.0

A small plant that produces sweet edible yellow fruits inside a thin paper husk

How Ripe

overripe
7 3.0
tomato
428 1.0
green
67 2.1

Surface Forms

tomato singular
tomatoes plural

Etymology

Tomato comes from the Nahuatl word tomatl, which became Spanish tomate when Europeans first saw the plant in Mexico, so the English name is really the original local word for 'the fruit'. That's why tomato means the red or yellow juicy fruit we eat.