tomato : Idioms & Phrases

• noun sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
  BLT.
  

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• noun any of several large tomatoes with thick flesh
  

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• noun plant bearing small red to yellow fruit
  Lycopersicon esculentum cerasiforme.
  
• noun small red to yellow tomatoes
  

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• noun tomato cases filled with various salad mixtures and served cold
  cold stuffed tomato.
  

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• noun tomato cases filled with various mixtures and baked briefly
  hot stuffed tomato.
  

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• noun any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers
  ground cherry.
  
• noun small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
  husk tomato; tomatillo.
  

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• noun annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
  jamberry; Physalis ixocarpa; tomatillo.
  
• noun small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
  husk tomato; tomatillo.
  

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• noun an Italian variety of cherry tomato that is shaped like a plum
  
• noun a kind of cherry tomato that is frequently used in cooking rather than eaten raw
  

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• noun stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
  Physalis pruinosa; dwarf cape gooseberry.
  
• noun decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk
  downy ground cherry; Physalis pubescens.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Alkekengi.

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• noun tomato cases filled with various salad mixtures and served cold
  cold stuffed tomato.
  
• noun tomato cases filled with various mixtures and baked briefly
  hot stuffed tomato.
  

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• noun a disease of tomato plants
  tomato blight.
  

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• noun a concentrated form of tomatoes
  

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• noun larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
  corn earworm; tobacco budworm; cotton bollworm; Heliothis zia; vetchworm.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines. They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly (Lasioptera vitis).

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• noun large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm
  potato worm; Manduca quinquemaculata.
  

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• noun the juice of tomatoes (usually bottled or canned)
  

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• noun thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes
  ketchup; catsup; cetchup.
  

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• noun thick concentrated tomato puree
  

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• noun native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
  tomato; Lycopersicon esculentum; love apple.
  

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• noun sauce made with a puree of tomatoes (or strained tomatoes) with savory vegetables and other seasonings; can be used on pasta
  

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• (Zoöl.), the adult or imago of the tomato worm. It closely resembles the tobacco hawk moth. Called also tomato hawk moth. See Illust. of Hawk moth.

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• noun disease of a wide range of plants (tomatoes, potatoes, peas) resulting from a mixed infection of potato and tomato mosaic
  

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• noun large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants; similar to tomato hornworm
  Manduca sexta; tobacco hornworm.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, ∨ Macrosila, quinquemaculata) which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also potato worm.

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• noun a disease of tomato plants
  tomato blight.
  

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• noun South American arborescent shrub having pale pink blossoms followed by egg-shaped reddish-brown edible fruit somewhat resembling a tomato in flavor
  tamarillo.
  

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