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tomato

Main Entry:: to·ma·to
Pronunciation:: \tə-ˈmā-(ˌ)tō; chiefly British, eNewEng, neVirginia, and sometimes elsewhere in cultivated speech -ˈmä-; chiefly Northern -ˈma-\
Function:: noun
Inflected Form(s):: plural to·ma·toes
Etymology:: alteration of earlier tomate, from Spanish, from Nahuatl tomatl
Date:: 1604

1: the usually large rounded typically red or yellow pulpy berry of an herb (genus Lycopersicon) of the nightshade family native to South America2: a plant that produces tomatoes; especially : one (Lycopersicon esculentum syn. L. lycopersicum) that is a tender perennial widely cultivated as an annual for its edible fruit

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