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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See eggplant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The fruit of the egg-plant, Solanum Melongena; the brinjal.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK an Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit
  2. n. UK the fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable
  3. n. a dark purple colour; eggplant.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow
  2. n. hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic الباذِنْجان (al-baðinjān), the eggplant, from Persian بادنگان (bâdengân), from باتنگان (bâtengân), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātiga-gama, "eggplant"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Catalan albergina, from Arabic al-bāḏinjān, the eggplant, from Persian bādenjān, bādengān. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Food Rocks was a genuinely crappy show ( "The Boogie Woogie Bagel Bakery Boy" was the highlight, if you can believe it), but owning a genuine Epcot animatronic aubergine is a pretty tempting proposition.”

    Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives

  • “I love the eggplant aka aubergine addition and anchovy dressing :”

    A Summer Salad

  • “My favourite vegetables are aubergine, which is great, sliced lengthways and brushed with marinade, as is courgette.”

    Visualising summer

  • “I wanted aubergine, which is a rich, plum-esque color.”

    qdiosa Diary Entry

  • “Knowing that an aubergine is the same as an eggplant, or that drumsticks equal chicken legs, simply gives better results.”

    The Seattle Times

  • “In Europe it is called aubergine, the word also deriving from Sanskrit, via Catalan, Arabic and Persian.”

    The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper

  • “Using the same trick in the Gimp we can see that the aubergine is a dark shade of the hue at 323 degrees, exactly 60 degrees apart from the orange.”

    Planet Ubuntu

  • “And I had the most amazing eggplant (called aubergine) dish the other night.”

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates

  • “LinuxPlanet goes into more detail about the changes coming to the Ubuntu desktop, reporting that the traditionally brown-colored interface will be replaced with a "aubergine" purplish look.”

    Tom's hardware UK

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. brinjal
  1. melongene
  1. eggplant

hypernyms (3)

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  1. solanaceous vegetable
  1. herbaceous plant
  1. Herb

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  1. violet d'évêque
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  1. color
  1. purple
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  1. food
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  • fbharjo awebergine when grilled with brie and madeira Apr 10, 2008

  • palooka Aubergine, also known as an eggplant, is generally blackish purple, like the skin of the eggplant. Jan 7, 2007

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