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# tomato

«tomato» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft, round, juicy fruit, usually red, which is eaten…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a tomato, tomatoes)

### meaning for a pupil

A tomato is a soft, round, juicy fruit, usually red, which is eaten raw in salads or cooked in sauces and soups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons the tomato is a botanical fruit because it grows from a flower and contains seeds, though in cooking it is used like a vegetable. Pupils grow tomato plants to study plant growth, flowers and seeds. In everyday life tomatoes make ketchup, pizza sauce and soup. Phrases: «tomato sauce» (UK, Australia: ketchup), «cherry tomato», «tomato soup».

### examples

- I put slices of tomato in my sandwich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/#x1)
- The tomato plant grew tall in the greenhouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/#x2)
- Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/#x3)
- Cherry tomatoes are small and sweet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/#x4)
- We made tomato soup in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/#x5)
- Green tomatoes turn red as they ripen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/#x6)
- Pass the tomato sauce, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/#x7)
- Do you wish to be fried in a pan, or do you prefer to be cooked with tomato sauce?” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/#x8)

### note

Plural: tomatoes (with -es, like potatoes). Pronunciation: «to-MAH-to» in the UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ; «to-MAY-to» in the USA and Canada. Myth: tomatoes are poisonous — the fruit is safe; only the leaves and stems are mildly toxic.

### In the corpora

- [Bumblebees can buzz at a special pitch that shakes pollen out of tomato flowers, and farmers use them in greenhouses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/17/)
- [Plants make bitter or poisonous chemicals after being attacked; a chewed tomato plant makes its leaves harder to digest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/15/)
- [Before 1492 Italy had no tomatoes, Ireland had no potatoes and nobody in Europe had tasted chocolate or chilli.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/1/)
- [Acidic food, like tomato or lemon, makes a sore spot in the mouth sting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/15-acids-in-the-kitchen/9/)
- [He got away with it all winter and nearly forgot — then Dad dug the pieces up planting tomatoes in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/343-accidents-told-too-late/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tomato» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tomato/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.