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prettygoodwordtomato (tuh-MAY-toh, tuh-MAH-toh, tuh-MAH-toh, tuh-MAY-toh) - n., a plant (Solanum lycopersicum, formerly Lycopersicon esculentum) bearing a round, red fruit with slightly acidic flesh cultivated and eaten as a vegetable.
Native to South America, and the red fruit we know today is from the Andes. Name adopted in the 1590s from Spanish tomate, from Nahuatl tomatl -- which originally meant the native green fruit now called a tomatillo, but the name transferred when the Spaniards introduced the South American species.
---L.
Native to South America, and the red fruit we know today is from the Andes. Name adopted in the 1590s from Spanish tomate, from Nahuatl tomatl -- which originally meant the native green fruit now called a tomatillo, but the name transferred when the Spaniards introduced the South American species.
---L.
