tomate

/toˈmate/ · B1 · noun · m

tomato

tomate — tomato

🍅 tomate = tomato minus the final o, plus an e: say to-MA-teh

It comes from Nahuatl tomatl, the Aztec name for the fruit, which also gave English its word tomato. In Mexico, tomate often means the green tomatillo, and a red tomato is called jitomate.

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