Noun
A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.
Source: Webster's dictionaryVery well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant. Gabriel García Márquez
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. Ursula K. Le Guin
People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word. Ron Finley
Bam's eggplant doesn't have a defect. Persian Proverb
If you see Mt. Fuji, a hawk, and an eggplant on New Year's Day, you will be forever blessed. Japanese Proverb
Don't give your son's wife fall-harvest eggplant to eat. Japanese Proverb