A dark purple colour; eggplant.
Used in a Sentence
aubergines
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for aubergines.
Editorial note
People campaign against flying in stuff like aubergines from Isreal but it is less energy intensive than the tomatoes they have with it.
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Quick take
A dark purple colour; eggplant.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of aubergines gathered in one view.
(British, Ireland) The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
(British, Ireland) An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for aubergines.
noun
A dark purple colour; eggplant.
noun
(British, Ireland) The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
noun
(British, Ireland) An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
Example sentences
People campaign against flying in stuff like aubergines from Isreal but it is less energy intensive than the tomatoes they have with it.
Cut and salted the aubergines for 20 minutes and rinsed the bitter liquid.
For example it's cheaper to buy sausages than it is to buy aubergines.
It's obviously impossible nonsense if you ask any human, but ChatGPT will happily recommend you some techniques for tying aubergines in a knot.
Attempting to tie aubergines together directly, without using twine, string, or another flexible medium, isn't feasible.
Nor did they have aubergines or basil despite their trade with India.
Take the vegetables you like, for example peppers, aubergines and zucchini.
And yield of course - which is size to some extent but also heavy cropping per plant, lots of (ideally big) aubergines not 3, for example.
Eg for today's dinner I had a nice rizotto with fried onion, sweet pepper, aubergines and semi-milled rice (don't forget soy sauce though).
> ChatGPT: Aubergines (or eggplants) aren't ideal for making a rope, but they might not be the absolute worst, either.
In Britain (and most Western European languages), we call them aubergines.
Organic tomato sauce from Mutti with pieces of tomatoes, organic aubergines from Italy, same olive oil from Calabria, same chili from calabria, my own basil...
Quote examples
Also, some people call "aubergines" "eggplants", they can't both be right!
"Shortages reported in broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines and courgettes" Those are the same ones as the UK.
Proper noun examples
Aubergines (eggplants) are firm but brittle vegetables; they lack flexibility, elasticity, or tensile strength required to create or sustain knots.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use aubergines in a sentence?
People campaign against flying in stuff like aubergines from Isreal but it is less energy intensive than the tomatoes they have with it.
What does aubergines mean?
A dark purple colour; eggplant.
What part of speech is aubergines?
aubergines is commonly used as noun.