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eggfruit

eggfruit noun: fruit of the eggplant (Solanum melongena).

Noun

eggfruit (countable and uncountable, plural eggfruits)

  1. Fruit of the eggplant (Solanum melongena).
  2. Fruit of the canistel tree (Lucuma campechiana), native to Central America and cultivated in tropical regions.
  3. Fruit of the lucmo tree (Lucuma bifera), closely related to the canistel and native to the Andean region of South America.
    • “I’m pumped!” he exclaimed, having just been told that a new graft will increase the size of his cherimoyas, and that he can easily hand pollinate his underproducing eggfruits.2009 June 28, John Anderson, “His Weird Side: That’s Where the Fun Is”, in New York Times

Forms of eggfruit

pluraleggfruits
alternative formegg-fruit

Origin of eggfruit

From egg + fruit.

Questions about eggfruit

What does eggfruit mean?
Eggfruit means fruit of the eggplant (Solanum melongena).
What part of speech is eggfruit?
Eggfruit is a noun.
What is the plural of eggfruit?
The plural of eggfruit is eggfruits.

Words near eggfruit in the dictionary

  1. eggflation
  2. eggflies
  3. eggflip
  4. eggflips
  5. eggfly
  6. eggfruit
  7. eggfruits
  8. egghead
  9. eggheaded
  10. eggheadedly
  11. eggheadedness

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