/eg"plant', -plahnt'/ , n.
1. a plant, Solanum melongena esculentum, of the nightshade family, cultivated for its edible, dark-purple or occasionally white or yellow fruit.
2. the fruit of this plant used as a table vegetable.
3. a blackish purple color; aubergine.
[ 1760-70; EGG 1 + PLANT ]