turkey berry

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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
  1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1868), page 404
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