tomato

en-verb

tomato (third-person singular simple present tomatos, present participle tomatoing, simple past and past participle tomatoed)

tomatos (present singular third-person)
tomatoing (participle present)
tomatoed (participle past)
tomatoed (past)

/təˈmɑː.təʊ/

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *tomatl. Compare tomatillo.

(transitive, rare) to pelt with tomatoes


tom

From generic use of the proper name Tom.


tom

Toms 90p a pound

“I'd like sausage, eggs, bacon, toms, mushies, beans – oh, and some fried bread,” said Mike.

2009, Mark Penny, Jonathan Penny, The Golden Pig, page 160:

(British, greengrocers' slang) A tomato (the fruit).


pomodoro

en-noun

pomodoro (countable and uncountable, plural pomodoros or pomodori)

From Italian pomodoro (“tomato”). The time interval comes from the Pomodoro kitchen timer, which is in the shape of a tomato.

Pastas, with soup & homemade bread — spaghetti with fresh garlic & olive oil $8.95, with pomodoro $8.95, with meatballs or Sicilian sausage $9.95, with prosciutto & olives $10.95, cannelloni $9.95, lasagna Siciliana $9.95, with fresh clams in a white wine sauce $10.95.

1995, Louis E. Madison, San Francisco on a shoestring, page 125:

Entrees include pizza with roasted vegetables; pizza margherita with tomato, fresh basil, and mozzarella; pizza with prosciutto, peppers, and onions; risotto of the day; rigatoni with pomodoro and Parmesan; radiatore puttanesca with capers, olives, anchovies, and garlic; fresh-spinach spaghetti primavera with garden vegetables, garlic, and oil; spaghetti Bolognese.

1994, New York - Volume 27, Issues 10-13, page 77:

Spread some pomodoro over the ricotta.

(uncountable) Ellipsis of pomodoro sauce.


tomacco

A tomato plant grafted onto a tobacco plant.


beefsteak

beefsteak (countable and uncountable, plural beefsteaks)

→ Danish: bøfsteg

Danish: bøf

→ Faroese: búffur

→ Icelandic: buff

→ Esperanto: bifsteko

→ Estonian: biifsteek

desctree

→ French: bifteck, biftèque (post-1990 spelling), beefsteak, beefsteck, beefteak, beefteck, biffteck, biftec, bistec, bisteck (all obsolete)
→ Albanian: biftek
→ Armenian: պիֆթէք (piftʻēkʻ) (Western Armenian)
→ Bulgarian: бифте́к (bifték)
→ Czech: biftek
→ Greek: μπιφτέκι (biftéki)
→ Ladino: biftek
→ Macedonian: бифтек (biftek)
→ Japanese: ビフテキ (bifuteki)
→ Ottoman Turkish: بیفتك (biftek)
Turkish: biftek
→ Romanian: biftec
→ Vietnamese: bít tết

→ German: Beefsteak

→ Armenian: բիֆշտեքս (bifštekʻs)

→ Belarusian: біфштэ́кс (bifštéks)

→ Georgian: ბიფშტექსი (bipšṭeksi)

→ Latvian: bifšteks

→ Lithuanian: bifštekas

→ Russian: бифште́кс (bifštéks) (see there for further descendants)

→ Ukrainian: біфште́кс (bifštéks)

→ Polish: befsztyk

→ Indonesian: bistik

→ Italian: bistecca

→ Japanese: ビーフステーキ (bīfusutēki)

→ Korean: 비프스테이크 (bipeuseuteikeu)

→ Malay: bifstik

→ Occitan: bistèc

→ Brazilian Portuguese: bisteca

→ Spanish: bistec

→ Swedish: biffstek

→ Tagalog: bistek

I purchased a half dozen of the healthiest-looking beefsteaks I could find, and tenderly planted the young shoots, using plenty of fertilizer and mulch. I faithfully watered them every day and the little plants quickly shot up to an impressive height.

2001, Patricia Mondore, A Perennial Faith: Finding Courage to Grow in the Garden of Life:

beefsteak tomato
beefsteak tomato#English

(countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak tomato.


Roma

From Latin and Italian Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Rome and Rum.

A female given name from Latin of English-speakers.


roma

Swap the vegetables for roma tomatoes (seeded), steamed new potatoes, carrots, and chickpeas (rinsed and drained); add a pinch of curry to the vinaigrette.

2008 January–February, Mark Bittman, “The only 7 meals you need for 2008”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 138:

Alternative letter-case form of Roma (“a variety of tomato”).


plum tomato

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cherry tomato

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Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum lycopersicum#Translingual

A type of small tomato, the cultivar Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme.


beef tomato

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love apple

Calque of Italian pomo d'oro (“tomato”, literally “golden apple”), confusing d’oro (“golden”) with d’amore (“love”), or from French pomme d’amour, equivalent to love + apple.


pomato

Combinations such as "pomatoes" do not have commercial value now, but investigators hope that closer crosses may.

1983, Water-related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in U.S. Arid/semiarid Lands:

A plant produced by grafting a tomato plant and a potato plant, producing cherry tomatoes on the vine and potatoes under the ground.


wolf's peach

(obsolete) tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).


bush tomato

Similarly the desert raisin, or bush tomato (Solanum centrale), used by Central Desert people for thousands of years, has become dependent on people for its propagation and spread.

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 39:

(Australia) Any of various plants of the genus Solanum, growing in arid parts of Australia, and bearing tomato-like fruits.


grape tomato

From grape + tomato. From the appearance of the tomato, small and elongated like a grape.

A type of small tomato similar in shape to a plum tomato but small like a cherry tomato.


Jet Star

She leaned back and pulled another tomato seedling from the flat. She set the plant in the newly dug hole and scooped soil over its thin white roots. She smiled. The Jet Stars were always the first to bloom and ripen.

1997, Mary McGarry Morris, Songs in Ordinary Time, page 104:

A variety of low-acidity, crack-resistant tomato.


Italian tomato

en-noun

Italian tomato (plural Italian tomatoes)

From Italian + tomato, from being a commonly encountered type of tomato in Italian cuisine.


currant tomato

currant tomato (plural currant tomatoes)

Solanum pimpinellifolium, a small, sweet wild tomato native to Ecuador and Peru.


heritage tomato

heritage tomato (plural heritage tomatoes)


Datterini tomato

Datterini tomato (plural Datterini tomatoes)

Literally, “datelike tomato”. See Datterini.

A sweet, elongated variety of tomato produced mainly in Italy.


'mater

Shortening of a dialectal pronunciation of tomato (or the also-attested dialectal rendering termater) with intrusive rhotacism. Compare tater (“potato”) and 'naner (“banana”).

'mater sandwich

(Southern US, Appalachia, informal) Contraction of tomato.


topato

Synonym of pomato (“potato–tomato hybrid”)