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wild eggplants

wild eggplants is the plural of wild eggplant.

Meaning of wild eggplant

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
  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

Questions about wild eggplants

What is wild eggplants the plural of?
Wild eggplants is the plural of wild eggplant.

Words near wild eggplants in the dictionary

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

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