garden egg

English

Noun

garden egg (plural garden eggs)

  1. A plant or fruit of certain species of eggplant:
    1. (West Africa) scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum).
      Synonyms: bitter tomato, Ethiopian eggplant, nakati, mock tomato, pumpkin-on-a-stick, scarlet eggplant
    2. (West Africa) thorn apple (Solanum incanum).
    3. (Caribbean) An eggplant (Solanum melongena).

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