eggplant

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Noun

eggplant (North America, Australia, New Zealand)

1. (North America, Australia, New Zealand) The plant Solanum melongena.
2. (North America, Australia, New Zealand) The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena: an aubergine.
3. (North America) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.

    

4. (US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
5. (snowboarding) A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall

Synonyms

• (the plant or its fruit) aubergine (UK), brinjal (India), baingan (India), brown jolly (Caribbean)
• (the fruit) melongene (Caribbean)

Translations

• French: aubergine
• German: Aubergine, Eierpflanze, Eierfrucht, Melanzani (Austria)
• Italian: melanzana
• Portuguese: berinjela
• Russian: баклажа́н
• Spanish: berenjena

Translations

• French: aubergine
• German: Aubergine, Eierfrucht, (Austrian) Melanzani
• Italian: melanzana
• Portuguese: beringela, berinjela
• Russian: баклажа́н
• Spanish: berenjena

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