"wild eggplant" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1917, R. T. Cotton, “The eggplant Lace-Bug in Porto Rico”, in Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, page 23:",
          "text": "It feeds normally on the so called wild eggplant, Solanum torvum, and it is on this plant that it is able to survive during the intervals between crops, [...]",
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          "ref": "1918, I. C. Jagger, V. B. Stewart, “Some Verticillium Diseases”, in Phytopathology, page 18:",
          "text": "the characteristic Verticillium fungus of eggplants being obtained from the following: Bonny Best tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.), [...] Solanum carolinense L., S. rostratum Dunal., S. integrifolium Poir., S. torvum (wild eggplant from Porto Rico), S. eleagnifolium Cav., S. marginatum Linn., and S. pyraconthum Jacq.",
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          "ref": "1933, George Norton Wolcott, An Economic Entomology of the West Indies:",
          "text": "Incidentally, it might be well also to destroy all wild eggplants, Solanum torvum, near commercial plantings, for numerous other insect pests, as well as the lacewing bug, occur on both hosts.",
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          "ref": "2009, Coconut recipes from around the world, Bioversity International, →ISBN, page 225:",
          "text": "[…]\n2 cups coconut milk\n1/4 cup small to medium-size prawns, shelled\nSalt\n1 cup wild eggplant (terung pipit or Solanum torvum)\n2 red chillies\n1/2 cup grated coconut, roasted\n[…]",
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          "text": "A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum) derived StoVe1 gene resulted in enhanced resistance to Verticillium dahliae infection (Liu et al., 2012).",
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        "A turkey berry bush (Solanum torvum), or its edible fruit."
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          "text": "From China, eggplant may have migrated to Japan, where it was one of the five most important vegetables. Another hypothesis holds that the people of India were the first to eat eggplant. Indians may have gathered wild eggplant around the time of Christ. Having originated in India, according to this hypothesis, eggplant migrated to China and then to Arabia in the fourth century CE.",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, eggplant. (Wild/undomesticated Solanum melongena.)"
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          "word": "gully bean"
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          "word": "susumber"
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          "word": "pea eggplant"
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