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Definition of love apple in English: love applenoun archaic A tomato. Example sentencesExamples - The tomato used to be called the love apple and this is nothing to do with its passionate colour or suggestive shape.
- Sun-warmed and soft, that juicy vine-ripened love apple is one of the true garden treats.
- This fruit confused French and Italian cooks, too, who called them ‘potatoes d' amour ‘or love apples, and ‘pomodoro ‘or golden apples, respectively.’
- A member of the Nightshade family, the tomato originated in Central America and was brought to Europe by the Spanish conquistadors, who nicknamed it the love apple.
- Open air markets still supply locally grown fruits (bananas, coconuts, guava, pineapples, mangoes, love apples, and passion fruit) and vegetables (breadfruit, Chinese cabbage, yams, gumbo, and manioc).
Definition of love apple in US English: love applenoun archaic An old-fashioned term for a tomato. 〈旧〉同TOMATO Example sentencesExamples - The tomato used to be called the love apple and this is nothing to do with its passionate colour or suggestive shape.
- A member of the Nightshade family, the tomato originated in Central America and was brought to Europe by the Spanish conquistadors, who nicknamed it the love apple.
- Sun-warmed and soft, that juicy vine-ripened love apple is one of the true garden treats.
- This fruit confused French and Italian cooks, too, who called them ‘potatoes d' amour ‘or love apples, and ‘pomodoro ‘or golden apples, respectively.’
- Open air markets still supply locally grown fruits (bananas, coconuts, guava, pineapples, mangoes, love apples, and passion fruit) and vegetables (breadfruit, Chinese cabbage, yams, gumbo, and manioc).
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