{
    "term": "tomato",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/ve/vegetables_salad.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a soft fruit with a lot of juice and shiny red skin that is eaten as a vegetable either raw or cooked",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich"
                },
                {
                    "text": "sliced/chopped tomatoes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "tomato plants"
                },
                {
                    "text": "tomato sauce/soup/juice"
                },
                {
                    "text": "tomato paste/puree"
                },
                {
                    "text": "sun-dried tomatoes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Demonstrators threw rotten tomatoes at the car."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It smells great, like ripe tomatoes."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["fresh", "ripe", "rotten"],
                "verb + tomato": ["eat", "have", "chop"],
                "tomato + noun": ["juice", "ketchup", "paste"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/təˈmɑːtəʊ/",
                "audio": "to/tomato/tomato__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/təˈmeɪtəʊ/",
                "audio": "to/tomato/tomato__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from French, Spanish, or Portuguese tomate, from Nahuatl tomatl."
}