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wild eggplant

noun

Definitions

  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, [...]
    • 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.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, eggplant. (Wild/undomesticated Solanum melongena.)

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