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Eggplant vs Eggfruit - What's the difference?

eggplant | eggfruit |

As nouns the difference between eggplant and eggfruit

is that eggplant is the plant Solanum melongena while eggfruit is a fruit, the canistel.

eggplant

English

Alternative forms

* egg-plant

Noun

  • (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 :
    • "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.
  • * 2006 , Jerome Charyn, Raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino
    • 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")

    eggfruit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fruit, the canistel.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 28, author=John Anderson, title=His Weird Side: That’s Where the Fun Is, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“I’m pumped!” he exclaimed, having just been told that a new graft will increase the size of his cherimoyas, and that he can easily hand pollinate his underproducing eggfruits . }}
  • Another fruit, the lucmo