Definition of "tomato plant" []

• Native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Hanna teamed with an agricultural engineer at UC Davis named Coby Lorenzen to design a tomato-harvesting machine that would cut off the tomato plant at soil level, pluck the fruits from the vine, and elevate them past a crew of tomato sorters into a gondola truck for transportation to market."