tomato
西红柿,番茄,蕃茄,蕃薯
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plural to·ma·toes.
- : any of several plants belonging to the genus Lycopersicon, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico and Central and South America, especially the widely cultivated species L. lycopersicum, bearing a mildly acid, pulpy, usually red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
- : the fruit itself.
- : Older Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a girl or woman.
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Though we disagree, Matt and Dana have brought me tomatoes from their garden and shopped for me as I’ve quarantined.
Once a week you drive to the allotment on the edge of the city where you grow marigolds and petunias, tomatoes and broad beans.
He worked for the Tip-Top Canning Factory, which was founded by his great-grandfather, and the factory’s tomato farm.
Peter Timmer, you will recall, grew up working on the tomato farm and cannery founded by his great-grandfather.
De Moraes and her colleagues set up experiments with mustard and tomato plants.
Fittingly to that point, its Rotten Tomato score (as of Tuesday evening) was a flat 50 percent.
The tomato sauce is ‘gravy’ to many Italian-Americans of a certain class.
The sandwich is made with thick tiles of quality bread and adorned with lettuce and tomato.
Fresh tomato juice makes an incredible difference in the drink.
Mongolians bravely swallow a glass of pickled sheep eyeballs mixed into tomato juice to chase away their morning-after blues.
The next morning it was that Cash cut the ball of his right thumb open on the sharp edge of a tomato can.
He made his loaves, tucked them into the pan and greased the top with bacon grease saved in a tomato can for such use.
A dibble made of a round and sharp-pointed stick is the usual tool for making holes when setting tomato and other plants.
Among these words are the names of such common things as chocolate, cocoa, tomato.
She's very pretty, but towards the end of the evening she looked rather like a squashed tomato, I thought.