Tomato vs Eggplant - What's the difference?
tomato | eggplant |
A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum , having edible fruit
The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture
* Note: The US Supreme Court in
A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.
(slang) A desirable-looking woman.
(slang) A stupid act or person.
to pelt with tomatoes
to add tomatoes to (a dish)
English nouns with irregular plurals
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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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As nouns the difference between tomato and eggplant
is that tomato is tomato while eggplant is (north america) the plant solanum melongena .tomato
English
(wikipedia tomato)Noun
(en-noun)Nix v. Hedden (1893)ruled that a tomato is a vegetable.
- Lookit the legs on that hot tomato !
Synonyms
* * (obsolete)Derived terms
{{der3, beef tomato , cherry tomato , plum tomato , tomato can , tomato juice , tomato paste , , tomato sauce , tomato soup , }}Verb
(en verb)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 ."