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melongenes

melongenes is the plural of melongene.

Meaning of melongene

Noun

melongene (plural melongenes)

  1. (Caribbean) An aubergine; an eggplant.
    • After all, most Trinidadians only have a limited knowledge to cook melongene: we either stew it, fry it, roast it, or curry it, and serve it with rice or roti.2008 August 23, Felix Padilla, “Moussaka”, in Simply Trini Cooking (blog), archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025
    Synonyms:
    the list in the entry eggplant

Questions about melongenes

What is melongenes the plural of?
Melongenes is the plural of melongene.

Words near melongenes in the dictionary

  1. melonal
  2. Melonba
  3. melonette
  4. melonettes
  5. melongene
  6. melongenes
  7. melongenid
  8. melongenids
  9. melongoside
  10. melongrower
  11. melongrowers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: melongenes (page history and authors); melongene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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