wild eggplant
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A turkey berry bush (Solanum torvum), or its edible fruit.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, eggplant. (Wild/undomesticated Solanum melongena.)
Example Sentences
- "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, [...]"
- "the characteristic Verticillium fungus of eggplants being obtained from the following: Bonny Best tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.), [...] Solanum carolinense L., S. rostratum Dunal., S. integrifolium Poir., S. torvum (wild eggplant from Porto Rico), S. eleagnifolium Cav., S. marginatum Linn., and S. pyraconthum Jacq."
- "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 cups coconut milk 1/4 cup small to medium-size prawns, shelled Salt 1 cup wild eggplant (terung pipit or Solanum torvum) 2 red chillies 1/2 cup grated coconut, roasted […]"
- "A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum) derived StoVe1 gene resulted in enhanced resistance to Verticillium dahliae infection (Liu et al., 2012)."
- "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."