[eg-plant, -plahnt] 
| 1. | a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit. |
| 2. | the fruit of this plant used as a table vegetable. |
| 3. | a blackish purple color; aubergine. |
| egg·plant (ěg'plānt') n.
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