Crossword clues for tomatoes
tomatoes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tomato \To*ma"to\, n.; pl. Tomatoes. [Sp. or Pg. tomate, of American Indian origin; cf. Mexican tomail.] (Bot.) The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family ( Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked.
Tomato gall (Zo["o]l.), a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines. They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly ( Lasioptera vitis).
Tomato sphinx (Zo["o]l.), the adult or imago of the tomato worm. It closely resembles the tobacco hawk moth. Called also tomato hawk moth. See Illust. of Hawk moth.
Tomato worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a large hawk moth ( Manduca quinquemaculata, Protoparce quinquemaculata, Sphinx quinquemaculata, or Macrosila quinquemaculata) which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also tomato hornworm and potato worm, and in the Southern U. S. tobacco fly.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of tomato English)
WordNet
n. mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable
native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties [syn: love apple, tomato plant, Lycopersicon esculentum]
[also: tomatoes (pl)]
See tomato
Usage examples of "tomatoes".
She looked at the orange-red tomatoes, the green beans, the green husks of corn over the yellow kernels.
Ofelia pushed the mulch deeper against the stems of the tomatoes with her foot.
Ofelia went on working on the tomatoes, pushing the mulch here and there, tying up straggling ends of the vines.
His hand came between Ofelia and the tomatoes, caught her chin and forced her face around.
Plant by plant she examined the garden: the beans, with their tiny fragrant flowers, the tomatoes, the young spears of corn, the exuberant vines of gourds.
Dayvine’s scarlet trumpets open… tomatoes and beans and squash and peas and chard… all the plants she could want, more than she could ever eat, producing more seed than she would ever need.
Day by day the tomatoes swelled from tiny green buttons to fat green globes.
The house filled with baskets of ripe tomatoes, beans, peppers, squash, gourds, melons.
She cut and dried the tomatoes she’d harvested, blanched and froze the beans.
She picked all the ripe tomatoes she could find in the gathering darkness, and took them inside.
Ofelia picked the tomatoes that hadn’t been turned to mush, gathered a handful of beans, and four ears of corn.
She busied herself restaking the tomatoes, raking away the rotting leaves, loosening the soil.
As she was laying the flatbread on the griddle, the kitchen door opened, and another creature—not the one who had taken the sheets—brought in two tomatoes and a handful of green beans, handling them carefully.
After that first rapture over fresh tomatoes, they had recoiled from the discovery that she did not sterilize the sheep and cow manure, the kitchen garbage, that went into the compost trench and then into the soil.
They accepted no more tomatoes, and refused the cooling fruit drink—although they would pick fruit themselves, and then scrub it in the kitchen sink in the center.