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Definitions: Eggplant |
EggplantNoun1. Egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow. 2. Hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eggplant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | A member of the nightshade family, eggplant is related to the tomato and potato. Though commonly thought of as a vegetable, it is actually a fruit, specifically, a berry. There are many sizes and shapes, ranging in color from white to rich purple. There is much lore surrounding the eggplant. It probably got its name from white varieties with egg-sized fruit. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An eggplant or aubergine is either of two species of nightshade, Solanum melongena and S. esculentum, bearing large pendulous purple or white edible fruit.
Although aubergine is the (British) English name given to this fruit, it is often invoked to describe other objects with a dark plum-colour. This name comes from the French Aubergine, derived from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic al-bAdhinjAn, the eggplant
The word "melongena" is from the Sanskrit "vatinganah", which has produced a number of names for this plant in various languages: brinjal, badingan, melongena, melenzana, berenjena, albergínia, aubergine, brown-jolly, and mad-apple (misinterpretation of Italian "melenzana" as "mela insana").
See Moussaka (Greek cuisine), Mutabal (Lebanese cuisine), Escalivada (Catalan cuisine), Caviar d'Aubergine (French Provencal Cuisine)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eggplant."
Synonyms: EggplantSynonyms: aubergine (n), brinjal (n), eggplant bush (n), garden egg (n), mad apple (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eggplant |
| English words defined with "eggplant": eggplant bush ♦ genus Solanum ♦ Mad-apple, moussaka ♦ Solanum. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eggplant": egg-plant ♦ Safeguards, import. (references) |
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Screenplays | The only thing I like better than an eggplant burger is a chocolate covered eggplant burger! (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera) Tomorrow I'll wake up looking like an eggplant. This could cost you major dollars. (Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain; writing credit: Barry Glasser) | |
Clever | Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Chu Yang, NRCS Soil Conservationist and Fresno State University graduate student and chairman of 1.5 acres donated by Fresno State University, Fresno, CA, to a group of Hmoung farmers. The farmers are growing Thai eggplant, lemon grass, bok choy, Chinese.Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Eggplant produce section of Asian Market.Credit: USDA. |
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Ursula K. Legrim | I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. |
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Trade | Laos | LAO LAW PROHIBITS THE IMPORTS OF WEAPONS BY PRIVATE CITIZENS; ILLEGAL DRUGS; TOXIC CHEMICALS; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; PORNOGRAPHY; AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE WHICH IS GROWN DOMESTICALLY IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITIES (I.E., EGGPLANT, TOMATOES, BANANAS, CHILIES, LEMONS). (references) |
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| "Eggplant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Eggplant" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "eggplant": eggplant bush. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eggplant recipe | 488 |
eggplant | 384 |
eggplant parmesan | 129 |
agriculture eggplant | 99 |
eggplant seed | 86 |
eggplant parmesan recipe | 70 |
grilled eggplant | 50 |
eggplant casserole | 38 |
growing eggplant | 36 |
eggplant parmigiana | 34 |
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| Language | Translations for "eggplant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | eierplant (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit), brinjal (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Albanian | patëllxhan (aubergine). (various references) | |
Arabic | لون الباذنجان, باذنجان (aubergine). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | патладжан (aubergine). (various references) | |
Catalan | d'albergínia (of eggplant). (various references) | |
Chamorro | birenghenas. (various references) | |
Chinese | 茄子, 茄 . (various references) | |
Czech | baklažán (aubergine). (various references) | |
Danish | auberginer (aubergine, egg-plant), aubergine (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Dutch | aubergines (aubergine, egg-plant), aubergine (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Farsi | بادنجان(گ.ش.). (various references) | |
Finnish | munakoiso (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit, egg-plant). (various references) | |
French | aubergine (eggfruit, egg-plant). (various references) | |
German | aubergine (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Greek | μελιτζάνες (aubergine, egg-plant). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חציל (aubergine). (various references) | |
Hungarian | padlizsán (aubergine). (various references) | |
Italian | melanzana (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 茄子 (aubergine). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なすび (aubergine), なす (aubergine, to accomplish, to do, to make, to perform). (various references) | |
Papiamen | berehein (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eggplantay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | instruído (educated person, informed, learned, literati, read, savant, trained, up, well educated, well informed, well read), beringelas (aubergine, egg-plant). (various references) | |
Romanian | pãtlãgea vânãtã (egg-plant). (various references) | |
Romany | patlazhùy. (various references) | |
Russian | баклажан (aubergine, egg-plant, guinea squash, guinea-squash). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plavi patlidžan (aubergine, egg-plant). (various references) | |
Spanish | berenjena (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Sranan | bulansyey (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit), bulansye (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Swahili | mbilingani (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit), bilingani (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Swedish | äggplanta (aubergine). (various references) | |
Tagalog | talóng (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit). (various references) | |
Thai | มะเขือยาวสีม่วงเข้ม. (various references) | |
Turkish | patlican (aubergine, brinjal, eggfruit), patlıcan (aubergine). (various references) | |
Turkmen | badamjan. (various references) | |
Ukranian | баклажан (aubergine). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | SOLANUM MELONGENA. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "eggplant": eggplants. (additional references) | |
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"Eggplant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eggsplene, egplant, Segeplan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eggplant" (pronounced e"gpla'nt) |
| 3 | -a' n t | confidante. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-l-n-p-t" | |
-2 letters: gelant, planet, platen, tangle. | |
-3 letters: agent, aglet, angel, angle, glean, laten, leant, leapt, lepta, palet, panel, paten, penal, petal, plage, plane, plant, plate, pleat, plena, tepal. | |
-4 letters: ante, egal, elan, etna, gaen, gage, gale, gane, gang, gape, gate, gelt, gent, geta, gleg, glen, gnat, lane, lang, late, lean, leap, lent, lept, nape, neap, neat, page, pale, pane, pang, pant, pate, peag, peal, pean, peat, pelt, pent, plan, plat, plea, tael, tale, tang, tape, teal, tela, tepa. | |
-5 letters: age, ale, alp, alt, ane, ant, ape, apt, ate, eat, egg, eng, eta, gae, gag, gal, gan, gap, gat, gel, gen, get, lag, lap, lat, lea, leg, let, nae, nag, nap, net, pal, pan, pat, pea, peg, pen, pet, tae, tag, tan, tap, tea, teg, tel, ten. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-l-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: eggplants. | |
+4 letters: telegraphing. | |
+5 letters: protolanguage. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 67 67 70 6C 61 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). --. --. .--. .-.. .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100111 01100111 01110000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E g g p l a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0067 0067 0070 006C 0061 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3973738278678086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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