plum tomato

1. 1.

   an Italian variety of cherry tomato that is shaped like a plum

   Broadercherry tomato
2. 2.

   a kind of cherry tomato that is frequently used in cooking rather than eaten raw

   Broadercherry tomato

Questions about plum tomato

What does plum tomato mean?

plum tomato means "an Italian variety of cherry tomato that is shaped like a plum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is plum tomato a common word?

plum 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.