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aubergines

aubergines is the plural of aubergine.

Meaning of aubergine

Noun

aubergine (countable and uncountable, plural aubergines)

  1. (Ireland, UK) An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
  2. (Ireland, UK) The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
    • The hot and sour curry is an aubergine version of a south Indian fish curry I often make. […] You barbecue a few aubergines until the skin is completely black and burned, then cool and peel.2013 August 2, Stevie Parle, “A meat cheat? Recipes with aubergine”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019
  3. A dark purple colour; eggplant.

Questions about aubergines

What is aubergines the plural of?
Aubergines is the plural of aubergine.

Words near aubergines in the dictionary

  1. Aubange
  2. aube
  3. auberge
  4. auberges
  5. aubergine
  6. aubergines
  7. auberginey
  8. aubergiste
  9. aubergistes
  10. Auberjonois
  11. Auberon

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