tomato
tomato — noun
1. a soft, round fruit that turns red, orange, or yellow when it is ready to eat, w
a soft, round fruit that turns red, orange, or yellow when it is ready to eat, with juicy flesh and many very small seeds inside, most often used raw in salads or cooked in sauces, soups, and other dishes
Noa sliced fresh tomatoes for the salad she was making for dinner.
collocation: slice + a + tomato
Adding chopped tomatoes to the soup gives it a deeper, richer taste.
gerund subject: adding + [ingredient] + to + [dish]
The smell of ripe tomatoes reminds Léa of her grandmother's summer garden.
For the best tomato sauce, start with the reddest, freshest tomatoes you can buy.
Bao ate cherry tomatoes straight from the bowl like they were sweets.
文法句型
a/an + tomato
tomato + noun (as modifier)
用法筆記
The plural form is 'tomatoes', not 'tomatos'. Botanically a fruit, but in cooking it is most often treated as a vegetable.
常見錯誤
❖ 'I bought two tomatos.' ✅ 'I bought two tomatoes.' — The plural of 'tomato' is 'tomatoes', with '-es', not '-s'.
❖ 'I don't like tomato.' (meaning the food in general) ✅ 'I don't like tomatoes.' — When talking about the food as a general category, use the plural form.
2. a garden plant with hairy stems and small yellow flowers that bears soft, round
a garden plant with hairy stems and small yellow flowers that bears soft, round fruit, grown in warm weather across many parts of the world
Hao planted tomato seeds in early spring to get a good harvest.
collocation: plant + tomato + seeds
Tomato plants need at least six hours of sunlight each day to grow well.
Ife tied her tall tomato plants to wooden sticks so they would not fall over.
In warm countries, tomato plants can produce fruit for many months of the year.
Removing the extra shoots from tomato plants helps the remaining fruit grow bigger.
文法句型
tomato plant(s)
grow + tomato + [noun]
用法筆記
Subject is usually 'tomato plant(s)' rather than 'tomato(s)' alone when referring to the living plant. Saying 'the tomato is a warm-weather crop' is also possible but much less common.
常見錯誤
❖ 'The tomato grows very fast.' (meaning the plant) ✅ 'The tomato plant grows very fast.' — Use 'tomato plant' to refer to the growing plant; 'tomato' alone usually means the fruit.