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| eggplant [ ég plaant ] (plural eggplants) |
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1. Australia food vegetable: a large fruit with shiny purple skin, eaten cooked as a vegetable
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2. Australia plant with large edible fruit: a plant of the nightshade family that produces eggplants. Native to: South and East Asia. Latin name Solanum melongena.
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3. US colours blackish purple: a very dark purple colour.
Australian, New Zealand, Canadian term aubergine
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UK term aubergine
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