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Eggplant

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noun. A plant (Solanum melongena) native to India, cultivated for its edible, glossy, usually ovoid fruits that are chiefly purple but can be white, yellow, or green.

noun. A fruit of this plant.

noun. A blackish purple.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

noun. The brinjal or aubergine, Solanum Melongena, cultivated for its large oblong or ovate fruit, which is of a dark-purple-color, or sometimes white or yellow. The fruit is highly esteemed as a vegetable. Also called egg-apple, mad-apple.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun. A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, glossy, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple. It is widely cultivated for its fruit, commonly eaten as a vegetable.

noun. The fruit of the eggplant{1}.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

noun. Solanum melongena

noun. Aubergine, the edible fruit of the Solanum melongena.

noun. A dark purple color.

noun. A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).

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noun. hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable

noun. egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow

Word Usage

"Kitchen notes: While the eggplant is leaching, make the pesto."

Equivalent

egg-plant

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

Herb herbaceous plant solanaceous vegetable

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

Dijon applesauce arugula avocado bald-face

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

aubergine brinjal brown jolly eggplant bush garden egg

variant

eggplant{1}