solanum melongena

Questions about solanum melongena

What does solanum melongena mean?

solanum melongena means "hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable".

What is another word for solanum melongena?

Close synonyms include eggplant, aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush, garden egg. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is solanum melongena a common word?

solanum melongena is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.