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Tomato

The tomato is a plant whose fruit is an edible berry that is eaten as a vegetable. The tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes tobacco, potato, and chili peppers. It originated from western South America, and may have been domesticated there, in Mexico, or in Central America. The Spanish introduced tomatoes to Eurasia in the Columbian exchange in the 16th century.

Shades of red

Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma, lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.

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1. ISO 639-3 language code for Papantla Totonac.

Noun

1. The highest or uppermost part of something.
2. The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.

tomato

Noun

1. A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
2. The savory fruit of this plant, most often red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.

Adjective

1. Of a shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.