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# aubergine

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

«aubergine» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#m1)
2. A dark purple colour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#m2)
3. (rude, adult slang) a rude word grown-ups use; not for school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#m3)

### In the lessons

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

### Examples

- We roasted aubergine for dinner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#x1)
- Moussaka is made with aubergine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#x2)
- My nan grows aubergines in her greenhouse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#x3)
- Her coat was a lovely aubergine colour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#x4)
- In America they call it eggplant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#x5)
- Aubergine soaks up a lot of oil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «aubergine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«aubergine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/aubergine.html) on Mova free.