different between eggplant vs antroba

English

Alternative forms

• egg-plant

Etymology

egg +? plant, originally applied only to the white-colored and egg-shaped variety.

Pronunciation

Noun

eggplant (countable and uncountable, plural eggplants)

1. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The plant Solanum melongena.
2. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena: an aubergine.
3. (Canada, US) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.

4. (US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
5. (snowboarding) A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall

Synonyms

• (the plant or its fruit): aubergine (UK), brinjal (India), baingan (India), brown jolly (Caribbean, dated)
• (the fruit): melongene (Caribbean)

Derived terms

• Eggplant mosaic virus

Translations

References

• eggplant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

antroba (uncountable)

1. A crushed eggplant dish eaten, often with saltfish, on the Caribbean island of Antigua.