solanum

Aubergines, with their creamy flesh and beautifully glossy, purple skins, are botanically a fruit, a member of the solanum or nightshade family, along with tomatoes and potatoes.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 2010

The third (or, according to some accounts, fourth) time this happened, Crum, enraged, sliced the offending solanum tuberosum into wafer-thin slivers, deep-fried and over-salted the result, and sent the dish out again hoping the guy would choke on it.

Crisps: a very British habit 2010

High in vitamin C, pineapple has frequently been used as a homeopathic treatment for impotence. tomato (tomate, jitomate) Physalis, solanum lycopersicon: Although native to México, and an important part of the diet since pre-Hispanic times, the tomato was promoted as an aphrodisiac not by the Mexicans but by the French, who called it the "love apple."

Food For Valentine's Day: Mexican Native Aphrodisiacs 2006

High in vitamin C, pineapple has frequently been used as a homeopathic treatment for impotence. tomato (tomate, jitomate) Physalis, solanum lycopersicon: Although native to México, and an important part of the diet since pre-Hispanic times, the tomato was promoted as an aphrodisiac not by the Mexicans but by the French, who called it the "love apple."

Food For Valentine's Day: Mexican Native Aphrodisiacs 2006

• Members of the solanum family Solanaceae include eggplant, peppers, potatoes, and tomatoes.

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005

• Members of the solanum family Solanaceae include eggplant, peppers, potatoes, and tomatoes.

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005

Various curious new plants and fruits appeared; amongst others a solanum, the berry of which was a very pleasant-tasted fruit.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

The green berries may contain poisonous solanum alkaloids and should not be eaten.

Chapter 7 1999

Every useful plant had not only an identity but a story: a pungent leaf used for fever, a poison capable of killing fish in half a mile of river, a solanum first planted by the jaguar, another employed as a treatment for scorpion bites.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Every useful plant had not only an identity but a story: a pungent leaf used for fever, a poison capable of killing fish in half a mile of river, a solanum first planted by the jaguar, another employed as a treatment for scorpion bites.

One River Wade Davis 1996