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solanaceous vegetable

Definitions of solanaceous vegetable
  1. noun
    any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon
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    types:
    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
    Mexican husk tomato, husk tomato, tomatillo
    small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
    baked potato
    potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven
    chips, french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries
    strips of potato fried in deep fat
    home fries, home-fried potatoes
    sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp
    mashed potato
    potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed
    Uruguay potato
    similar to the common potato
    sweet pepper
    large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong; commonly used in salads
    hot pepper
    any of various pungent capsicum fruits
    beefsteak tomato
    any of several large tomatoes with thick flesh
    cherry tomato
    small red to yellow tomatoes
    type 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
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