eggplant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; 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.

/ˈɛɡ.plænt/ /-plɑːnt/ en-us-eggplant.ogg EN-AU ck1 eggplant.ogg

eggplant eggplants egg-plant

From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety.

aubergine brinjal baingan brown jolly baigan bhaigan bangun melongene

🍆

Eggplant mosaic virus eggplanty Ethiopian eggplant pea eggplant scarlet eggplant wild eggplant

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.

Back to search All on E Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary