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eggplant.

The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɛɡ.plænt//-plɑːnt/
  1. The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

    Australia · Canada · New-Zealand · Philippines · US · countable · uncountable
  2. A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.

    Canada · US · countable · uncountable
  3. A black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.

    US · countable · derogatory · offensive · slang · uncountable
  4. A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety. Compare Dutch and Afrikaans eierplant (“eggplant”), German Eierpflanze (“eggplant”), Swedish äggplanta (“eggplant”). Compare also Afrikaans eiervrug (“eggplant”, literally “egg-fruit”), Icelandic eggaldin (“eggplant”, literally “egg-fruit”).

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