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Tomato

noun

(pl. tomatoes)

Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable.

Native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties. Synonyms: love apple, Lycopersicon esculentum, tomato plant.

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"Tomato" Quotes from Famous Books

... expression was implacably resentful, and so was the gesture with which he hurled an object at the comedian preoccupied with the opposite fence. This object, upon reaching its goal, as it did more with a splash than a thud, was revealed as a tomato, presumably in a useless state. The taunter screamed in astonishment, and after looking vainly for an assailant, began necessarily to ...

— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington

... rather ambitious—stuffed eggs rolled in vermicelli. It tasted rather like a bird's-nest, and one felt it had taken a lot of making and rolling in brown hands. I envied the simpler poached egg on tomato of the engineer. You can't ...

— Olivia in India • O. Douglas

... endure Rebecca, Jane had flashes of inspiration in which she wondered how Rebecca would endure them. It was in one of these flashes that she ran up the back stairs to put a vase of apple blossoms and a red tomato-pincushion on Rebecca's bureau. ...

— The Flag-raising • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, ...

— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

... them all the time. He used to put tar in the tomato soup, and beeswax and tin-tacks on the chairs. He was full of ideas. They seemed to come ...

— Further Foolishness • Stephen Leacock

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