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wild eggplant

wild eggplant noun: a turkey berry bush (Solanum torvum), or its edible fruit.

Noun

wild eggplant (plural wild eggplants)

  1. A turkey berry bush (Solanum torvum), or its edible fruit.
    • It feeds normally on the so called wild eggplant, Solanum torvum, and it is on this plant that it is able to survive during the intervals between crops, [...]1917, R. T. Cotton, “The eggplant Lace-Bug in Porto Rico”, in Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, page 23
    • the characteristic Verticillium fungus of eggplants being obtained from the following: Bonny Best tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.), [...] Solanum carolinense L., S. rostratum Dunal., S. integrifolium Poir., S. torvum (wild eggplant from Porto Rico), S. eleagnifolium Cav., S. marginatum Linn....1918, I. C. Jagger, V. B. Stewart, “Some Verticillium Diseases”, in Phytopathology, page 18
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, eggplant. (Wild/undomesticated Solanum melongena.)
    • From China, eggplant may have migrated to Japan, where it was one of the five most important vegetables. Another hypothesis holds that the people of India were the first to eat eggplant. Indians may have gathered wild eggplant around the time of Christ. Having originated in India, according to this...2013, Christopher Martin Cumo, Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants: From Acacia to Zinnia [3 volumes]: From Acacia to Zinnia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 387
    Synonyms:
    gully bean, turkey berry, susumber, pea eggplant, terung pipit

Examples of wild eggplant in a sentence

  • Incidentally, it might be well also to destroy all wild eggplants, Solanum torvum, near commercial plantings, for numerous other insect pests, as well as the lacewing bug, occur on both hosts.1933, George Norton Wolcott, An Economic Entomology of the West Indies:
  • A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum) derived StoVe1 gene resulted in enhanced resistance to Verticillium dahliae infection (Liu et al., 2012).2016, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Debmalya Barh, Applied Molecular Biotechnology: The Next Generation of Genetic Engineering...
  • Indians may have gathered wild eggplant around the time of Christ.2013, Christopher Martin Cumo, Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants: From Acacia to Zinnia [3 volumes]: From Acacia to Zinnia, ABC-CLIO...

Synonyms of wild eggplant

Forms of wild eggplant

pluralwild eggplants

Questions about wild eggplant

What does wild eggplant mean?
Wild eggplant means a turkey berry bush (Solanum torvum), or its edible fruit.
How do you use wild eggplant in a sentence?
Incidentally, it might be well also to destroy all wild eggplants, Solanum torvum, near commercial plantings, for numerous other insect pests, as well as the lacewing bug, occur on both hosts.
What part of speech is wild eggplant?
Wild eggplant is a noun.
What is the plural of wild eggplant?
The plural of wild eggplant is wild eggplants.

Words near wild eggplant in the dictionary

  1. wild custard apples
  2. wild dog
  3. Wild Dog Valley
  4. wild dogs
  5. wild duck
  6. wild eggplant
  7. wild eggplants
  8. wild endive
  9. wild endives
  10. wild fed
  11. wild feed

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