Tomato vs Potatoes - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tomato and potatoes

is that tomato is tomato while potatoes is .

(wikipedia tomato)

(en-noun)

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 Nix v. Hedden (1893) ruled that a tomato is a vegetable.

A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

(slang) A desirable-looking woman.

Lookit the legs on that hot tomato !

(slang) A stupid act or person.

* * (obsolete)

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(en verb)

to pelt with tomatoes

to add tomatoes to (a dish)

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