eggplant

1. 1.

   egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow

   Synonymsauberginemad apple

   Broadersolanaceous vegetable
2. 2.

   hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable

   Synonymsauberginebrinjaleggplant bushgarden eggmad appleSolanum melongena

   Broaderherb

   Part ofSolanum

Other forms of eggplant

plural

eggplants·

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.

Questions about eggplant

What does eggplant mean?

eggplant means "egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eggplant?

eggplant has 2 syllables: egg-plant. The stress falls on "egg". In IPA it is /ˈɛɡˌplænt/.

What is another word for eggplant?

Close synonyms include aubergine, mad apple, aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eggplant a common word?

eggplant is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with eggplant?

4 words rhyme with eggplant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.