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noun
A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum), a bushy, erect and spiny perennial plant used horticulturally as a rootstock for eggplant.
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noun
A South African plant of genus Canthium.
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History
Sense 1: "From the fact that these berries are much eaten by turkeys."
