Masculine

Paradiesapfel

Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) candy apple, toffee apple
  2. (archaic, masculine, strong) tomato

Synonyms

Lycopersicon esculentum

Paradeisapfel

Solanum esculentum

Lycopersicon lycopersicum

Solanum lycopersicum

Grape

Liebesapfel

Tomatenflanze

Etymology

From Paradies (“paradise”) + Apfel (“apple”), referring to the fruit of the forbidden tree. Similar forms for “tomato”, perhaps borrowed from German, exist in several eastern European languages.

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