tomatoes
UStuh-MAY-tohz/təˈmeɪ.toʊz/UK · AUStuh-MAH-tohz/təˈmɑː.təʊz/
- 1Plural of tomato.
The recipe calls for two pounds of crushed tomatoes.
Vine-ripened tomatoes taste far better than ones picked early.
Note
The spelling is the part to remember. Like potatoes and heroes, this noun ending in -o adds -es, not the bare -s that many later loanwords take. Tomato can also be uncountable, as in a spoonful of chopped tomato. The plural is what you use for separate fruits or plants: three tomatoes on the vine, a crate of tomatoes.
tomatoes is a form of tomato
tomato, noun: The soft, juicy fruit of the tomato plant, usually red when ripe and eaten as a vegetable; also the plant itself. Full entry
- Forms
- tomatotomatoes plural
- Spelling
- tomato → tomatoes: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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