赤あか茄子なす

noun

Chinese scarlet eggplant; tomato-fruit eggplant

Refers to the plant Solanum integrifolium, an ornamental eggplant with small tomato-like fruits. Not commonly eaten.

• 庭にわに赤あか茄子なすを植うえて、観かん賞しょう用ように育そだてている。

  I planted Chinese scarlet eggplants in the garden and grow them for ornamental purposes.

noun

tomato

An older or literary name for the common tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). In modern Japanese, トマト is overwhelmingly more common.

See also: トマト

• 昔むかしはトマトのことを赤あか茄子なすと呼よぶこともあった。

  In the past, tomatoes were sometimes called 赤茄子.