tomatoes
tomatoes — noun
1. A round fruit with red or yellow skin, soft juicy flesh, and many small seeds. I
A round fruit with red or yellow skin, soft juicy flesh, and many small seeds. It is eaten raw in salads or cooked in sauces, stews, and other dishes as a savory ingredient.
Gabriela sliced two ripe tomatoes for the salad while the pasta boiled.
Maeve picked the reddest tomatoes from the vine and dropped them into a basket.
collocation: pick tomatoes / from the vine
Iker chopped the tomatoes into cubes and mixed them with onion and coriander for the salsa.
Joon's grandmother added a can of crushed tomatoes to the stew to deepen the flavor.
The children ate cherry tomatoes straight from the bowl like sweets during the picnic.
2. A plant with green leaves and small yellow flowers that produces the fruit known
A plant with green leaves and small yellow flowers that produces the fruit known as a tomato. It grows on a vine and is commonly grown in gardens or greenhouses.
Saira planted twelve tomato seedlings along the sunny side of the fence.
Hamza watered the tomatoes every evening and watched the green fruits slowly turn red.
collocation: water tomatoes / grow tomatoes
The biology teacher showed the class a diagram of a tomato plant's root system.
Chiara harvested the ripe tomatoes before the autumn rains damaged the crop.
- tomato plant
more specific term for the plant itself — use when you need to avoid confusion with the fruit
用法筆記
The plural "tomatoes" can refer either to the fruits or to the plants themselves when the context is about gardening. For the plant, speakers also use the compound "tomato plant" for clarity.