Eggplant vs Antelope - What's the difference?
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(North America) The plant Solanum melongena .
(North America) The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena : an aubergine.
(North America) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
(US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
* 2004 , Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Back to Life :
* 2006 , Jerome Charyn, Raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino
Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
(US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana .
* 1881 , John W. Forney, The New Nobility , page
As nouns the difference between eggplant and antelope
is that eggplant is (north america) the plant solanum melongena while antelope is any of several african mammals of the family bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.eggplant
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Alternative forms
* egg-plantNoun
- "Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant -this and nigger-that at me," she said.
- What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant ."
Synonyms
* (the plant or its fruit) aubergine (UK), brinjal * (the fruit) melongene (UK)See also
* (wikipedia "eggplant")antelope
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(wikipedia antelope)Noun
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- "It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.