"cherry tomato" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cherry tomato.wav Forms: cherry tomatoes [plural]
Etymology: From its resemblance to a cherry. Head templates: {{en-noun|es}} cherry tomato (plural cherry tomatoes)
  1. A type of small tomato, the cultivar Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme. Wikipedia link: cherry tomato Categories (lifeform): Fruits, Tomatoes Synonyms: cherry tom Translations (a type of small tomato): че́ри дома́т (čéri domát) (Bulgarian), cirerol [masculine] (Catalan), tomàquet cherry [masculine] (Catalan), tomaca cherry [feminine] (Catalan), 車厘茄 /车厘茄 (ce¹ lei⁴ ke²) (Chinese Cantonese), 聖女果 /圣女果 (shèngnǚguǒ) [Mainland-China] (Chinese Mandarin), 櫻桃番茄 /樱桃番茄 (yīngtáo fānqiě) (Chinese Mandarin), 小番茄 (xiǎo fānqiě) (Chinese Mandarin), 小西紅柿 /小西红柿 (xiǎo xīhóngshì) [Mainland-China] (Chinese Mandarin), 聖女番茄 /圣女番茄 (shèngnǚ fānqiě) [Taiwan] (Chinese Mandarin), kirsstomat (Estonian), kirsikkatomaatti (Finnish), tomate cerise [feminine] (French), Kirschtomate [feminine] (German), ντοματίνι (ntomatíni) [neuter] (Greek), koktélparadicsom (Hungarian), pomodorino [masculine] (Italian), pomodoro ciliegino [masculine] (Italian), 방울토마토 (bang'ultomato) (Korean), tadam zgħir (Maltese), pomidorek koktajlowy [masculine] (Polish), tomate-cereja [masculine] (Portuguese), тома́т че́рри (tomát čérri) [masculine] (Russian), помидо́р че́рри (pomidór čérri) [masculine] (Russian), че́рри (čérri) (english: gender not fully established) [feminine, masculine, neuter] (Russian), češnjev paradižnik [masculine] (Slovene), paradižnik češnjevec [masculine] (Slovene), körsbärstomat [common-gender] (Swedish), cà chua bi (Vietnamese), tomato bach melys [masculine] (Welsh)

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      "english": "gender not fully established",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čérri",
      "sense": "a type of small tomato",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "че́рри"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a type of small tomato",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "češnjev paradižnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a type of small tomato",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paradižnik češnjevec"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a type of small tomato",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "körsbärstomat"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a type of small tomato",
      "word": "cà chua bi"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a type of small tomato",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tomato bach melys"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cherry tomato"
}

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