husk tomato
- noun
- /ˈhʌsk təˈmeɪtoʊ/
- US
:
tomate de cáscara
- I bought some husk tomatoes at the market.
Examples
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Farmers often grow husk tomato for both its unique appearance and its culinary uses.
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She added chopped husk tomato to the salsa for a tangy flavor.
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The garden's husk tomato plants thrived in the warm weather, producing dozens of paper-covered fruits.
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The husk tomato is often used in Mexican cuisine.
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In Mexican cuisine, the husk tomato is commonly used to make green salsa.
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The farmers harvested the husk tomatoes from their fields to prepare for the market.
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You can easily spot a husk tomato by its characteristic papery shell that covers the fruit.
Synonyms
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7.6
A small round green fruit with a thin papery husk used in Mexican cooking and the plant that grows it
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8.4
A small plant that makes edible berries inside a thin paper husk
A small edible fruit like a tomato, wrapped in a dry papery husk
A small plant that produces sweet edible yellow fruits inside a thin paper husk
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an edible fruit enclosed in a papery husk' is directly derivable from combining 'husk' (protective dry layer) and 'tomato' (fruit); a B1 learner who knows both constituents would infer it refers to a tomato-like fruit covered by a husk. This is a straightforward compositional noun compound following common cross-linguistic patterns, so no prior exposure is required to grasp the basic meaning.
Etymology
Husk tomato names a small, tomato-like 'fruit' that sits inside a thin, paper husk. The picture of a little tomato wrapped in a paper husk is easy to imagine, and that's why the name means that enclosed, edible fruit.