English > solanaceous vegetable: 1 sense > noun 1, foodMeaning | Any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon. |
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Narrower | eggplant, aubergine, mad apple | egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow |
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pepper | Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum |
potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater | An edible tuber native to South America |
tomatillo, husk tomato, Mexican husk tomato | small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk |
tomato | mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable |
Broader | vegetable, veggie, veg | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
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Spanish | solanácea |
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Catalan | solanàcia |
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