different between tomato vs recessive

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 Latin recess?vus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?v

Adjective

recessive (comparative more recessive, superlative most recessive)

1. Going back; receding.
2. (genetics) Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait.
   • 1944 June 21, James A. G. Rehn, South African Bird-Locust Records and Notes (Orthoptera; Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae; Group Cyrtacanthacres), Notulae Naturae, Number 137, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 3,

     The Lydenburg male and the other two females have the infuscate pattern definitely more recessive and less evident, although traceable.

   • 1988, American Pigeon Journal, Volume 76, page 36,

     This plan takes advantage of the fact that barless is the most recessive of a series of alleles.

   • 2001, D. P. Sponenberg, M. F. Rothschild, 6: Genetics of Coat Colour and Hair Texture, page 65,

     The series of murine Agouti alleles is a consistent array as it progresses from the most recessive to the most dominant allele (Jackson, 1994).

3. (by extension) Not dominant; whose effect is masked by stronger effects.
   • 1979, Ken Heap, Process and Action in Work with Groups: The Preconditions for Treatment and Growth, page ix,

     The worker–client relationship is more recessive and has a more catalytic and enabling quality.

Antonyms

• (genetics): dominant

Translations

Noun

recessive (plural recessives)

1. (genetics) A gene that is recessive.
   • 1930, R. A. Fisher, J. H. Bennett, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (page 50)

     Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.

   • 1988, Arnel R. Hallauer, Marcelo J. Carena, J.B. Miranda Filho, 6: Selection: Theory, 2nd Edition, page 234,

     Selection favoring recessives is common in maize breeding for several traits, such as sweetness, opacity, brachysm, lack of ligules.

   • 2008, Ascertainment Test, entry in George P. Rédei, Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Informatics, page 147,

     In three-child families 27/64 will have no affected offspring, 9/37 will have 2, and 1/37 are expected to have 3 recessives.

Anagrams

• cerevises, e-services

Danish

Adjective

recessive

1. definite/plural of recessiv

Italian

Adjective

recessive f pl

1. feminine plural of recessivo

Anagrams

• ricevesse