*tomato*

{ } a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth. ] Not possessing a mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Automata E. Automatons [ L. fr. Gr. &unr_;, neut. of &unr_; self-moving; &unr_; self + a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. &unr_; to strive. See Mean, v. i. ] 1. Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

These living automata, human bodies. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. automatus, Gr. &unr_;. See Automaton. ] Automatic. [ Obs. ] “Automatous organs.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ] An epitomist. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Odonto- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, the mouth. ] (Zool.) Having toothlike mandibles; -- applied to certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Same as Plagiostomous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) (a) Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods. (b) Pertaining to the Siphonostomata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. stéatomateux. ] (Med.) Of the nature of a steatoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth. ] (Zool.) A division of Protozoa in which a mouthlike opening exists. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Anat.) Same as Stomodaeum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a mouth; -- applied to certain Protozoa. -- n. One of the Stomatoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth + E. gastric. ] Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth + -logy. ] (Med.) Scientific study or knowledge of the mouth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth + -plastic. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth + -plasty. ] Plastic surgery of the mouth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Stomatopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Stoma, and -pod. ] (Zool.) Same as Stomapoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Stomatopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth + -scope. ] (Med.) An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a stoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, symptom + -logy: cf. F. symptomatologie. ] (Med.) The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It includes diagnosis, or the determination of the disease from its symptoms; and prognosis, or the determination of its probable course and event. [ 1913 Webster ]