English Dictionary

wild eggplant

noun

Solanum torvum, the turkey berry bush, or its edible fruit. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, eggplant. (Wild/undomesticated Solanum melongena.)

The wild eggplant is a type of plant in the Solanum torvum species.

意味（1）

Solanum torvum, the turkey berry bush, 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, …

意味（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 hypothesis, eggplant migrated to China and then to Arabia in the fourth century CE.