turkey berry

English

Etymology

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

Noun

turkey berry (plural turkey berries)

  1. A 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