turkey berry

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

"From the fact that these berries are much eaten by turkeys."[1]

Noun[edit]

turkey berry (plural turkey berries)

  1. The wild eggplant, Solanum torvum, a bushy, erect and spiny perennial plant used horticulturally as a rootstock for eggplant.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Edinburgh Medical Journal (1868), page 404
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