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Etymology

The word tomato comes from the Spanish tomate, which in turn comes from the Nahuatl word tomatl, meaning "swelling fruit". The specific name lycopersicum, meaning "wolf peach", originated with Galen, who used it to denote a plant that has not been identified. Luigi Anguillara speculated in the 16th century that Galen's lycopersicum might be the tomato, and despite the impossibility of this identification, lyocpersicum entered scientific use as a name for the fruit.