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love apple (n.)
"tomato," 1570s, corresponding to French
pomme d'amour
, German
liebesapfel
, but the reason for the term remains obscure. One guess is that it is a corruption of Italian
pomo de'Mori
or Spanish
pome dei Moro
, literally "Moorish apple."