mucronato, non scatolato

[tsoapm]

Hi,

I’m having some trouble working out how to translate scatolato with reference to a tomato.

POMODORO GRINTA
Il frutto è di calibro grande, cilindrico, mucronato, non scatolato, sempre consistente, di colore verde intenso, con collettatura pronunciata.

The website that I got that from actually has a translation already, but I don’t think I trust it much:

mucronate, not boxed (no empty spaces inside)

I can’t find anything that back up the term ‘boxed’, but I suppose the explanation will be valid; I'm pretty clueless about how you might get that across in English. Full? But I have an idea that it's meant to be in contrast to ‘mucronate’, and I don’t see how it is. Perhaps that's me barking up the wrong tree.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Benzene]

Hello tsopam!

My suggestion is as follows "mucronato, non scatolato" = "with mucronate apex, compact flesh/pulp".

Bye,

Benzene

 

[Mary49]

Hi Mark,
the cavities in tomatoes are called "locules" and I find "locular" as an adjective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locule

 

[tsoapm]

Thanks both. I’m not sure I can say it’s not locular (perhaps the description I found is less than exact after all). I read from various sources that tomatoes have two or more locules. Perhaps, as Wikipedia suggests, scatolato means “very few, very small [locular] cavities”?

 

[bobes]

'Non scatolato' significa che le cavità non sono vuote. Se nella foto sopra non ci fosse la polpa con i semi allora il pomodoro sarebbe 'scatolato'

 

[tsoapm]

Oh, I see. It seems obvious (going on the information above) when you put it like that.

 

[bobes]

La foto con le didascalie in inglese è di un pomodoro scatolato

 

[tsoapm]

Isn’t that a bell pepper?

Anyway, I suppose I could put it as “with no hollow locules/cavities” (depending on how technical I want to be)?

 

[bobes]

Sì, ma ci sono dei pomodori molto simili... diciamo che se fosse un pomodoro sarebbe scatolato
Qui puoi leggere cosa è, tecnicamente, lo scatolamento (pag.11).

 

[Mary49]

http://www.ipt.us.com/produce-inspe...ors-blog/defect-identification/tomatoes-puffy "When puffy tomatoes are cut, larger air spaces are found in the cavities (locules) normally occupied by the seed-bearing tissues".

 

[tsoapm]

Qui puoi leggere cosa è, tecnicamente, lo scatolamento (pag.11).

Hmm. My source is basically a product description, where scatolato seems like a neutral characteristic that this doesn't happen to have, and this obviously refers to a defect. How odd.

 

[Mary49]

Did you read my post #10?

 

[tsoapm]

I’m not entirely sure who you’re talking to now, but I did.