cherry tomato
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɛri təˈmeɪtoʊ/
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tomate cherry
- She enjoys snacking on cherry tomatoes straight from the garden.
- a cherry tomato salad
- ripe cherry tomatoes
- halved cherry tomatoes
Like a a spring salad where it's like mixed greens and like a couple of cherry tomatoes.
- Like a a spring salad where it's like mixed greens and like a couple of cherry tomatoes.
- These are the the sweetie cherry tomatoes.
- Grapes, cherry tomatoes, celery and Portobello mushrooms fell out of the pinata.
- So I just get daily reminders of how anxious my girl is and daily, daily reminders that our money is just being spent on the dumbest cherry tomatoes.
Examples
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You can toss cherry tomatoes into your salad for a burst of sweetness.
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My own appetizer was simple—a buffalo mozzarella and cherry tomato salad—but featured some magical touches.
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This is a cherry tomato called Sun Sugar, and check it out.
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You could always try making half a batch with cherry tomatoes and see how you like it.
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I had five of my garden cherry tomatoes in my salad for dinner tonight.
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The last time she made dinner, she gave him a cherry-tomato salad with nuts and mint.
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Plus, I think roasting adds so much more flavor, especially with cherry tomatoes.
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The salads came, and she carved the cherry tomatoes in half and ate, feeling a wash of relief.
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You can also pick all your green cherry tomatoes and let them ripen indoors.
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Zucchini, onions, and cherry tomatoes from our garden are ready to be oven-roasted.
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Synonyms
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A juicy round fruit usually red, sometimes yellow, eaten raw or cooked
A small tomato plant that produces sweet red or yellow fruits
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Morphology
The compound 'cherry tomato' is compositionally transparent: 'cherry' evokes small, round, sweet and 'tomato' names the fruit, so the sense 'a small round/sweet tomato' is directly derivable from its parts. This noun–noun compounding is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and follows normal English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Cherry tomato is called this because the little tomatoes look like cherries, being small, round and often red. That's why the name means a 'small, sweet tomato' you can 'eat whole' or put in a salad.