Eggplant vs Plum - 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).
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The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica , often of a dark red or purple colour.
The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica .
A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
A desirable thing.
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.
A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
(pejorative) A fool, idiot.
(slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing '' with ''Prunus domestica including, among others:
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## Prunus mume , an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums
The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits
(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
Completely; utterly.
(mining) To plumb.
As nouns the difference between eggplant and plum
is that eggplant is the plant Solanum melongena while plum is the edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.As an adjective plum is
of a dark bluish-red colour.As an adverb plum is
completely; utterly.As a verb plum is
to plumb.eggplant
English
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")plum
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(wikipedia plum)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with German Pflaume, Dutch pruim. Compare pruneNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (tree) plum tree, plumtree * umeDerived terms
* American black plum * Assyrian plum * Australian plum * Brazilian plum * Canada plum * Darling plum * East Indian plum * Guinea plum * Indian plum * Jamaica plum * Japanese plum * Japan plum * Morocco plum * Natal plum * Orleans plum * Port Arthur plum * Queensland plum * Satsuma plum * Spanish plum * Tasmanian plum * Victoria plum * yellow Spanish plum * apple-plum * beach plum, beach-plum * black plum of Illawarra * blood plum * bullace plum * cherry plum * chickasaw plum * cocoa plum, coco plum, cocoplum * damascene plum, damask plum, damson plum * date plum, date-plum * dried plum * gingerbread plum * golden plum * gopher plum * gray plum, grey plum * ground plum * hog-plum * horse-plum * leaf curling plum aphid * marmalade plum * mirabelle plum * mountain plum * muscle plum * mussel plum * myrobalan plum, myrobella plum * olive-plum * partridge plum * pear-plum * persimmon-plum * pigeon-plum * plum blossom * plum brandy * plum curculio * plum peach * plum pox * plum pudding, plum-pudding * plum rains * plum sauce * plum tomato * plum tree * plum weevil * plum wine * plum-bird, plum bird * plum-blossom * plum-broth * plum-budder, plum budder * plum-cake * plum-color, plum-colour * plum-colored, plum-coloured * plumcot * plum-damas, plumdamas, plum-damis * plum-dough, plum-duff * plum-fir * plum-gouger, plum gouger * plum-in-the-mouth * plumless * plummy * plum-pie * plum-pockets * plum-porridge * plum-pottage * plumrock * plum-stone * pluot * sapodilla plum * sebesten plum * slugplum * sugar plum, sugar-plum, sugarplum * tamarind plum * the bloom of the plum, the blue of the plum * urucuri plum * wheat-plum * wild plum * yellow plum * yellowgage plumAdjective
(more)- She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.
See also
* briolette * damson * greengage * mirabelle * myrobalan * prune * sapote * slivovitz * sloe * umeboshi * umesu *Etymology 2
Phonetically based spelling of (plumb)Adverb
(-)- You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.