DFa large vegetable with smooth purple skin 茄子SYN British English aubergine →5see picture at 见图vegetable1
Examples from the Corpus
eggplant• Add eggplant to saucepan and saute in remaining oil until golden brown, 6 to 8 minutes.• But eggplant is her game.• When it comes to cooking eggplant, that is always the question.• Remove eggplant with slotted utensil and set aside.• The purple-skinned eggplant is baked to almost a soft pudding.• Beyond that, I could see no correlation between the amount of seeds and the bitterness of the eggplant.• The eggplant on top was curled up.• When eggplant is done, remove to platter on top of herbs and brush tops with oil once more.