different between tomato vs nightshade

English

Alternative forms

• tomater (eye dialect)
• 'mater (Southern US, Appalachia, informal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl, from Proto-Nahuan *tomatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??m??.to?/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [t????m??o?]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [t????m??t???]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [t????m??t???]
• IPA^(key): /t??me?.to?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [t????me??o?], [t????me???]
• Rhymes: -??t??, -e?t??

Noun

tomato (countable and uncountable, plural tomatoes)

1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
2. The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.

   Synonyms: (informal) love apple, (obsolete) wolf's peach

   Meronym: lycopene

   • 1990, JSG Trading Corp. v. Tray-Wrap, Inc., 917 F.2d 75 (2d Cir. 1990)

     In common parlance tomatoes are vegetables, as the Supreme Court observed long ago [see Nix v. Hedden 149 U.S. 304, 307, 13 S.Ct. 881, 882, 37 L.Ed. 745 (1893)], although botanically speaking they are actually a fruit. [26 Encyclopedia Americana 832 (Int'l. ed. 1981)]. Regardless of classification, people have been enjoying tomatoes for centuries; even Mr. Pickwick, as Dickens relates, ate his chops in "tomata" sauce.

3. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

4. (slang) A desirable-looking woman.

5. (slang) A stupid act or person.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tomatillo

Descendants

Translations

Verb

tomato (third-person singular simple present tomatos, present participle tomatoing, simple past and past participle tomatoed)

1. (transitive) to pelt with tomatoes
2. (transitive) to add tomatoes to (a dish)

Amis

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (tomato), from English tomato.

Noun

tomato

1. tomato

References

• 2017, Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis (?????????) (in Mandarin Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples.

Chichewa

Etymology

Borrowed from English tomato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?má.to/

Noun

tomáto 1a

1. tomato

Synonyms

• phwetekere
• matimati

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English tomato and French tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?mato/
• Hyphenation: to?ma?to
• Rhymes: -ato

Noun

tomato (accusative singular tomaton, plural tomatoj, accusative plural tomatojn)

1. tomato (fruit)
2. tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum)

Derived terms

• tomata (“made of or related to tomatoes”, adjective)

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?mato/

Noun

tomato (plural tomati)

1. tomato

Japanese

Romanization

tomato

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English tomato.

Noun

tomato

1. tomato

Welsh

Etymology

From English tomato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??mat?/

Noun

tomato m (plural tomatos)

1. tomato

   Synonym: afal cariad

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “tomato”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From Middle English ny?tschade, ni?teschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihts?ada, corresponding to night +? shade. Compare German Nachtschatten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?t?e?d/

Noun

nightshade (plural nightshades)

1. Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
2. (colloquial) Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
3. Belladonna or deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna.
4. Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• petit morel, petty morel