cherry tomato

Questions about cherry tomato

What does cherry tomato mean?

cherry tomato means "plant bearing small red to yellow fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cherry tomato?

Close synonyms include Lycopersicon esculentum cerasiforme. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cherry tomato a common word?

cherry tomato is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.