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tomato

The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant. The species originated in western South America and Central America. The Mexican Nahuatl word tomatl gave rise to the Spanish word tomate, from which the English word tomato derived. Its domestication and use as a cultivated food may have origin...

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"Tomato" goes back to the Aztec name for the plant " tomatl " . The word came into Russian from French ( tomate ). "Tomato", another popular variant of the name of the vegetable, comes from the Italian. pomo d'oro - "golden apple" .

There is also another version: shortly after the discovery of America, bright red tomatoes in Europe, apparently because of their color, symbolizing love, were renamed love apples ( fr. pomme d'amour , and in Russian - tomato) .

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The birthplace of tomatoes is South America , where wild and semi-cultivated forms of tomato are still found.

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