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Tomato [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant, and its fruit, a species of Solanum. It is called sometimes the love-apple.

Tomato [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 Encyclopedia Britannica

TOMATO. See Horticulture, vol. xii. p. 288.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 437
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Tomatoes [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tomato