solanum

IPA: sˈoʊɫʌnʌm

noun

  • (botany) Any plant in the genus Solanum.
  • (East Africa) A traditional green vegetable in the genus Solanum, specifically Solanum nigrum, and sometimes Solanum macrocarpon, Solanum scabrum, and Solanum villosum.
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Examples of "solanum" in Sentences

  • Solanum apical leaf curling virus.
  • I also made a page on Solanum verrogeneum.
  • This name is also used for related species of 'Solanum.
  • The Solanum page lists the potato vine as an edible species.
  • 'Solanum arboreum' is an arborescent shrub in the Solanaceae family.
  • Potato vine may apply to several plant species of the genus Solanum.
  • As with most Solanum species, the foliage is also poisonous to humans.
  • This plant was variously considered a variety of other Solanum species.
  • The article should state which regions of the world solanum is native to.
  • Early tuber development from explanted stolon nodes of Solanum tuberosum var.
  • The green berries may contain poisonous solanum alkaloids and should not be eaten.
  • • Members of the solanum family Solanaceae include eggplant, peppers, potatoes, and tomatoes.
  • Various curious new plants and fruits appeared; amongst others a solanum, the berry of which was a very pleasant-tasted fruit.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."

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