tomato

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  1. noun A widely cultivated South American plant (Lycopersicon esculentum) having edible, fleshy, usually red fruit.
  2. noun The fruit of this plant.
  3. noun Slang A woman regarded as attractive.

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  1. Alteration of Spanish tomate, from Nahuatl tomatl.

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  1. Formerly also tomata; =F. tomate, from Spanish Portuguese tomate, from Mexican tomatl, a tomato.
 

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/təˈmɑtoʊ/
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