eggplant

Noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

aubergine brinjal garden egg eggplant bush Solanum melongena oval solanum chard bilberry blue rice potato plum angle purple
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

herb plant herbaceous plant solanaceous vegetable

Phrases with the word

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Examples

Very 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

Close letter words and terms

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