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Handplant vs Eggplant - What's the difference?

handplant | eggplant |

As nouns the difference between handplant and eggplant

is that handplant is (skateboarding) a move in which the skater balances on his hand after skating up to the top of a halfpipe while eggplant is (north america) the plant solanum melongena .

As a verb handplant

is (gardening) to plant a seed with one's hands, as opposed to a machine or tool.

handplant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (skateboarding) A move in which the skater balances on his hand after skating up to the top of a halfpipe.
  • A handflower (Chiranthodendron pentadactylon ).

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (gardening) to plant a seed with one's hands, as opposed to a machine or tool.

    • 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")