English Dictionary

wild eggplant

名詞

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

日本語の意味

ソラナム・トルヴム、すなわちターキーベリー低木あるいはその食用の果実を指す。 / 栽培されていない、野生のナス（ソラナム・メロングーナ）のことを示す場合もある。

The villagers harvest wild eggplant from the hedgerows to make a spicy stew.

村人たちは生け垣からターキーベリー（Solanum torvum）を収穫して辛いシチューを作ります。

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.

wild eggplants （ plural ）