Associations to the word «Lycopersicon»

Wiktionary

LYCOPERSICON, proper noun. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae   — the tomatoes and related plants, now in Solanum.
LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Solanaceae   — now Solanum lycopersicum or subspecies Solanum lycopersicum var. lycopersicum.

Dictionary definition

LYCOPERSICON, noun. Tomatoes.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope