Definition of "egg-plant" [egg-plant]

• Alternative spelling of eggplant. (noun)

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• "Wheat, dhourra, barley, and dokhen are sown here; of vegetables the Badendján, or egg-plant, Meloukhye onions and radishes are cultivated; and vines, lemon, and banana-trees abound."
• "Came lunch time, madly hot: and greasy hot soup, greasy rice, splintery little fried fishes, bits of boiled meat and boiled egg-plant vegetables, a big basket piled with mangoes, papayas, zapotes — all the tropical fruits one did not want, in hot weather."
• "Boiled calabacitas or egg-plant, salad, perhaps some dulce made with milk — and the big basket of fruit."