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Eggplant

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Noun

1. aubergine, eggplant, mad apple

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

2. aubergine, brinjal, eggplant, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, solanum melongena

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Eggplant

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noun
1. 
a tropical Old World solanaceous plant, Solanum melongena, widely cultivated for its egg-shaped typically dark purple fruit
2. 
the fruit of this plant, which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable

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Eggplant

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noun
1. 
a perennial plant (Solanum melongena) of the nightshade family, with large, ovoid, usually purple-skinned fruits that are eaten as a vegetable
2. 
the fruit

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Eggplant

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n.
1.
a. 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.
b. A fruit of this plant. Also called aubergine.
2. A blackish purple.

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