tomato in English: A soft round red fruit that we eat in salads or cook into sauces. (noun)

Translation

A soft round red fruit that we eat in salads or cook into sauces.

Word origin

From Spanish tomate, which came from tomatl in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.

Gender

Pluraltomatoes

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A tomato is a fruit, but we eat it like a vegetable.

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The plural adds -es: one tomato, two tomatoes.

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Tomatoes are cooked into soups and sauces.

salad

A cold dish of raw vegetables, often eaten with other food.

vegetable

A plant, or part of a plant, that you eat, like a carrot, an onion, or a potato.

fruit

The sweet part of a plant that holds the seeds and is good to eat.

red

Having the colour of blood or of a ripe tomato.

soup

A hot liquid food made by cooking vegetables, meat or fish in water.

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