noun
hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable
• Syn: ↑eggplant, ↑aubergine, ↑brinjal, ↑eggplant bush, ↑mad apple, ↑Solanum melongena
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Solanum, ↑genus Solanum
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noun : eggplant
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an aubergine
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garden egg,
the fruit of an eggplant.
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a type of ↑aubergine with purple, white or greenish-yellow skin
Useful english dictionary. 2012.