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egg·plant
(ĕg′plănt′)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.
[From the appearance of the ovoid fruit, especially of varieties bearing white-skinned fruit.]
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eggplant
(ˈɛɡˌplɑːnt)n
Also called: aubergine1. (Plants) a tropical Old World solanaceous plant, Solanum melongena, widely cultivated for its egg-shaped typically dark purple fruit
2. (Plants) the fruit of this plant, which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable
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egg•plant
(ˈɛgˌplænt, -ˌplɑnt)n.
1. a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, usu. dark-purple fruit.
2. the fruit of this plant used as a vegetable.
3. a blackish purple color; aubergine.
[1760–70]
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eggplant
The large, egg-shaped dark purple fruit of the eggplant.
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| Noun | 1. |  eggplant - egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellowsolanaceous vegetable - any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena, aubergine, brinjal, eggplant - hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable |
| 2. |  eggplant - hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetableeggplant, mad apple, aubergine - egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Solanum, Solanum - type genus of the Solanaceae: nightshade; potato; eggplant; bittersweet |
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Translations
بَاذِنـْجانباذِنْجان
baklažán
aubergine
munakoiso
patlidžan
padlizsán
eggaldin
ナス
가지
jajčevec
aubergineäggplanta
มะเขือฝรั่งมีสีม่วงผลยาวใหญ่
cà tím
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egg1
(eg) noun1. an oval object usually covered with shell, laid by a bird, reptile etc, from which a young one is hatched. The female bird is sitting on the eggs in the nest.
2. such an object laid by a hen, used as food. Would you rather have boiled, fried or scrambled eggs?
3. in the female mammal, the cell from which the young one is formed; the ovum. The egg is fertilized by the male sperm.
ˈegg-cup noun a small cup-shaped container for holding a boiled egg while it is being eaten.
ˈeggplant noun a dark purple fruit used as a vegetable.
ˈeggshell noun the fragile covering of an egg.
put all one's eggs in one basket to depend entirely on the success of one scheme, plan etc. You should apply for more than one job – don't put all your eggs in one basket.
teach one's grandmother to suck eggs to try to show someone more experienced than oneself how to do something.
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eggplant
→ بَاذِنـْجان baklažán aubergine Aubergine μελιτζάνα berenjena munakoiso aubergine patlidžan melanzana ナス 가지 aubergine aubergine bakłażan beringela, berinjela баклажан aubergine มะเขือฝรั่งมีสีม่วงผลยาวใหญ่ patlıcan cà tím 茄子Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
eggplant
n. berenjena.
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