cherry tomato

English

Etymology

Cherry tomatoes.

From its resemblance to a cherry.

Noun

cherry tomato (plural cherry tomatoes)

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
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
Hungarian: koktélparadicsom (hu)
Italian: pomodorino m, pomodoro ciliegino m
Maltese: tadam zgħir
Polish: pomidorek koktajlowy m
Portuguese: tomate-cereja m
Swedish: körsbärstomat (sv) c
Vietnamese: cà chua bi

References

cherry tomato on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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