melongenen.
/ˈmɛləndʒiːn/, U.S. /ˈmɛl(ə)nˌdʒin/, Caribbean English /ˈmɛlʌnˌdʒɛn/ In the Caribbean: the aubergine or eggplant, Solanum melongena; the fruit of this plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > aubergine
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1793 T. Jefferson Let. 10 Mar. in Papers (1992) XXV. 347 The Melongene (Solanum Melongena of the botanists) is unknown to me.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 125 Egg-plant, Aubergine, or Melongene—Solanum melongena.
1907 Port of Spain Gaz. 15 Oct. 2/5 (advt.) Peasant Proprietors..are invited to send exhibits of: Yams,..Melongenes, Peppers.
1939 Nature 29 July 178/1 The very general use to which the [Trinidad Low Temperature Research] Station could be put was recognized..and..work was..extended to tomatoes, limes,..melongenes, [etc.].
1952 S. Selvon Brighter Sun ii. 37 Lettuce taking good... But ochro and melongene would take good.
1969 G. Sims Sand Dollar iv. 50 We might..fry some jacks and melongene, that's a kind of egg-plant.
1990 L. Persaud Butterfly in Wind 84 During harvest time tomatoes were ripened under the high four-poster iron bed and..melongenes were stored there too.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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