- a soft fruit with a lot of juice and shiny red skin that is eaten as a vegetable either raw or cooked
- a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich
- sliced/chopped tomatoes
- tomato plants
- tomato sauce/soup/juice
- tomato paste/puree
- sun-dried tomatoes
- Demonstrators threw rotten tomatoes at the car.
- It smells great, like ripe tomatoes.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fresh
- ripe
- rotten
- …
- eat
- have
- chop
- …
- juice
- ketchup
- paste
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French, Spanish, or Portuguese tomate, from Nahuatl tomatl.Want to learn more?
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