cherry tomato

English

Etymology

Cherry tomatoes.

From its resemblance to a cherry.

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
• 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