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单词 mato
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maton.1

Brit. /ˈmeɪtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmeɪdoʊ/
Forms:

α. 1800s martisses (plural), 1900s mattises (plural), 1900s mortases (plural), 1900s– 'matises (plural).

β. 1900s– mata, 1900s– mater, 1900s– 'mater, 1900s– mato, 1900s– 'mato, 1900s– matter.

Etymology: Shortened < tomato n.The α. forms show double plural marking; compare the plural forms termartusses , termattusses , and tomattuses at tomato n.
U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland).
A tomato.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > tomato
golden apple1578
love apple1578
tomato1604
wolf's peach1760
tommytoe1838
cherry tomato1859
Jew's ear1883
mato1895
Marmande1967
1895 Dial. Notes 1 394 Tomato, martisses, Winchester, Ky.
1929 J. B. Sale Tree named John 145 Chillun tryin' t' tell ole folks mattises ain't mattises, dey is ter-mar-ters!
1970 Amer. Speech 45 73 I saved you a fresh 'mato.
1993 D. Mullins Times of used to Be 83 Gimpy Sledd 'cused him of shoplifting some 'matoes.
2010 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 12 June d7/1 Yankoglu noticed that the little devils were..picking his tomato plants clean... So he set about finding another way to stop the pests before they got more 'maters.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

maton.2

Brit. /ˈmatəʊ/, /ˈmɑːtəʊ/, /ˈmatuː/, /ˈmɑːtuː/, U.S. /ˈmædoʊ/, /ˈmædu/
Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese mato.
Etymology: < Brazilian Portuguese mato bush, scrub, forest (1083 in Portuguese) < Portuguese mata wood, forest (1050), cognate with Spanish mata (see motte n.1).
In Brazil: scrubland or forest; a forest.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of
ripplelOE
wildwooda1122
rough1332
firth?a1400
tod stripec1446
osiard1509
bush1523
bush-ground1523
fritha1552
island1638
oak landc1658
pinelandc1658
piney wood1666
broom-land1707
pine barrenc1721
pine savannah1735
savannah1735
thick woods1754
scrub-land1779
olive wood1783
primeval forest1789
open wood1790
strong woods1792
scrub1805
oak flata1816
sertão1816
sprout-land1824
flatwoods1841
bush-land1842
tall timber1845
amber forest1846
caatinga1846
mahogany scrub1846
bush-flat1847
myall country1847
national forest1848
selva1849
monte1851
virgin forest1851
bush-country1855
savannah forest1874
bush-range1879
bushveld1879
protection forest1889
mulga1896
wood-bush1896
shinnery1901
fringing forest1903
monsoon forest1903
rainforest1903
savannah woodland1903
thorn forest1903
tropical rainforest1903
gallery forest1920
cloud forest1922
rain jungle1945
mato1968
1824 H. E. Lloyd tr. J. B. von Spix & C. F. P. von Martius Trav. Brazil I. ii. ii. 238 The primeval forests, which stand as testimonies of the creative energy of the new continent,..are called, in Brazil, virgin forests (mato virgem).]
1968 R. L. Fish Bridge that went Nowhere 11 Armed and in good health, a stranger to those matos would be hard put to preserve life.
1969 K. Benton Twenty-fourth Level i. 7 Shaggy coats of grass and wild jungle, wherever the trees of the mato could hang on to the precipitous rock.
1986 O. S. Card Speaker for Dead (1987) i. 27 His mother..ruled the archives as if it were an ancient estação in the wild mato.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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