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turkey berry

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English

Syllables
turkey ber-ry
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum), a bushy, erect and spiny perennial plant used horticulturally as a rootstock for eggplant.

noun

A South African plant of genus Canthium.

Etymology

Sense 1: "From the fact that these berries are much eaten by turkeys."

Inflected Forms

turkey berries (plural)

Questions

What does turkey berry mean?
A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum), a bushy, erect and spiny perennial plant used horticulturally as a rootstock for eggplant.
Where does turkey berry come from?
Sense 1: "From the fact that these berries are much eaten by turkeys."

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