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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#m1)

2) A dark purple colour. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

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

### examples

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aubergine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aubergine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.