cherry tomato

English

Etymology

Cherry tomatoes.

From its resemblance to a cherry.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cherry tomato (plural cherry tomatoes)

1. A type of small tomato, the cultivar Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme.

   Synonym: cherry tom

   Hypernym: tomato

   Hyponym: cocktail tomato

   Coordinate terms: plum tomato, grape tomato

Translations

a type of small tomato

• Bulgarian: че́ри дома́т (čéri domát)
• Catalan: cirerol m, tomàquet cherry m, tomaca cherry f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 車厘茄 / 车厘茄 (ce¹ lei⁴ ke²)

  Mandarin: 聖女果 / 圣女果 (zh) (shèngnǚguǒ) (mainland China), 櫻桃番茄 / 樱桃番茄 (yīngtáo fānqiě), 小番茄 (xiǎo fānqiě), 小西紅柿 / 小西红柿 (xiǎo xīhóngshì) (mainland China), 聖女番茄 / 圣女番茄 (shèngnǚ fānqiě) (Taiwan)

• Estonian: kirsstomat
• Finnish: kirsikkatomaatti (fi)
• French: tomate cerise (fr) f
• German: Kirschtomate (de) f
• Greek: ντοματίνι (el) n (ntomatíni)
• Hungarian: koktélparadicsom (hu)
• Italian: pomodorino m, pomodoro ciliegino m
• Korean: 방울토마토 (bang'ultomato)
• Maltese: tadam zgħir
• Polish: pomidorek koktajlowy m
• Portuguese: tomate-cereja m
• Russian: тома́т че́рри m (tomát čérri), помидо́р че́рри m (pomidór čérri), че́рри (ru) m or f or n (čérri) (gender not fully established)
• Slovene: češnjev paradižnik m, paradižnik češnjevec m
• Swedish: körsbärstomat (sv) c
• Vietnamese: cà chua bi
• Welsh: tomato bach melys m

References

cherry tomato on Wikipedia.Wikipedia