eggplant

Meanings

Plural: eggplants

Noun

• egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow
• hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable
• The plant Solanum melongena.
• The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena: an aubergine.
• A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
• A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
• A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall

Synonyms

aubergine, baigan, baingan, bangun, bhaigan, brinjal, brown jolly, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, melongene, Solanum melongena

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