aubergine

«aubergine» in Mova's school dictionary: A vegetable with smooth, shiny, dark purple skin and soft… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (aubergine, aubergines); adjective (aubergine — colour)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Ireland) A vegetable with smooth, shiny, dark purple skin and soft white flesh; in the USA, Canada and Australia it is called eggplant. tree →

2) A dark purple colour. tree →

3) (rude, adult slang) a rude word grown-ups use; not for school. tree →

sense in the lessons

In food lessons and cooking: moussaka, ratatouille and baba ghanoush use aubergine.

examples

• We roasted aubergine for dinner. tree →
• Moussaka is made with aubergine. tree →
• My nan grows aubergines in her greenhouse. tree →
• Her coat was a lovely aubergine colour. tree →
• In America they call it eggplant. tree →
• Aubergine soaks up a lot of oil. tree →

note

UK/Ireland: aubergine (from French); US/Canada/Australia/NZ: eggplant. Said «OH-ber-zheen». Countable for the vegetable, uncountable as food.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «aubergine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.