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say it: tuh-MAY-toh
tomato is a noun meaning "mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable". It carries 2 recorded senses.
mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable
native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tomato come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.