Tomato vs Cucumber - What's the difference?
tomato | cucumber |
A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum , having edible fruit
The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture
* Note: The US Supreme Court in
A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
(slang) A desirable-looking woman.
(slang) A stupid act or person.
to pelt with tomatoes
to add tomatoes to (a dish)
English nouns with irregular plurals
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A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus .
The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.
As nouns the difference between tomato and cucumber
is that tomato is a widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit while cucumber is a vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.As a verb tomato
is to pelt with tomatoes.tomato
English
(wikipedia tomato)Noun
(en-noun)Nix v. Hedden (1893)ruled that a tomato is a vegetable.
- Lookit the legs on that hot tomato !
