tomato

pluriel irrégulier

A noun referring to a red or yellowish fruit with a juicy pulp, used as a vegetable in cooking, often eaten raw in salads or cooked in sauces.

• 🇫🇷Fruit rouge ou jaunâtre à chair juteuse, utilisé comme légume en cuisine, souvent consommé cru en salade ou cuit dans les sauces.

1. Edible fruit A1 formal culinary

   A red or yellow fruit often used as a vegetable in cooking, with a juicy texture and slightly acidic taste.

   • She sliced a fresh tomato for the salad.
   • Tomatoes are a key ingredient in pasta sauce.
   • He grew tomatoes in his garden this summer.

   🇫🇷Tomate (fruit)

2. Plant A2 formal culinary

   The plant (Solanum lycopersicum) that produces this fruit.

   • The tomato plant needs plenty of sunlight to thrive.
   • She watered the tomato plants every morning.
   • The garden was full of ripe tomatoes on the vine.

   🇫🇷Plante de tomate

   Synonymes: love appletomato plant

• tomatoes plural form
• tomatoes' possessive plural form
• tomato's possessive singular form