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say it: AW-bur-jeen
aubergine is a noun meaning "hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable". It carries 2 recorded senses.
hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable
egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aubergine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.