SOLANACEOUS VEGETABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solanaceous vegetable mean? 

• SOLANACEOUS VEGETABLE (noun)
  The noun SOLANACEOUS VEGETABLE has 1 sense:

1. any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon

  Familiarity information: SOLANACEOUS VEGETABLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLANACEOUS VEGETABLE (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon

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Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("solanaceous vegetable" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solanaceous vegetable"):

Irish potato; murphy; potato; spud; tater; white potato (an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland)

aubergine; eggplant; mad apple (egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow)

pepper (sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum)

tomato (mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable)

husk tomato; Mexican husk tomato; tomatillo (small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk)