Eggplant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An Indian plant (Solanum melongena var. esculenta) cultivated for its large edible, ovoid, glossy, usually purple-skinned fruit.
  • n. The fruit of this plant. Also called aubergine, melongene.
  • n. A blackish purple.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Solanum melongena
  • n. Aubergine, the edible fruit of the Solanum melongena.
  • n. A dark purple color.
  • n. A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. The fruit of the eggplant{1}.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable
  • n. egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow
    • Equivalent
    egg-plant   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    herbaceous plant    Herb    solanaceous vegetable   
    Variant
    eggplant{1}   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aubergine    brinjal    eggplant bush    garden egg    mad-apple   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    nonedible    blaze-faced    syringing    scurvy grass    succory   
     
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