Tomato vs Tom - What's the difference?
tomato | tom |
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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The male of the domesticated cat.
The male of the turkey.
The male of certain other animals.
(British, slang) A prostitute.
(music) A type of drum.
(obsolete) The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
(Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery
(intransitive, derogatory, of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.
(nautical) To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability.
As nouns the difference between tomato and tom
is that tomato is a widely cultivated plant, (taxlink), having edible fruit while tom is the male of the domesticated cat or tom can be a tomato (the fruit) or tom can be (cockney rhyming slang) jewellery.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 !