wild eggplant

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wild eggplant

noun wild eggplants

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, [...]
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
Similar: gully bean, turkey berry, susumber, pea eggplant, terung pipit

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@misc{wild_eggplant_2026,
  title = {wild eggplant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wild%20eggplant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}