solanaceous vegetable
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| Noun | 1. |  solanaceous vegetable - any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersiconveg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant Irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, tater, white potato - an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland eggplant, mad apple, aubergine - 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 |