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Brinjal

noun
1.
Hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable.  Synonyms: aubergine, eggplant, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena.






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"Brinjal" Quotes from Famous Books



... head of flowers at the ends of the leafy branches. Wild strawberry, violet, geranium, etc., announced our approach to the temperate zone. Around the temple were potato crops and peach-trees, rice, millet, yam, brinjal (egg-apple), fennel, hemp (for smoking its narcotic leaves), and cummin, etc. The potato thrives extremely well as a summer crop, at 7000 feet, in Sikkim, though I think the root (from the Dorjiling stock) cultivated as a winter crop in the plains, is superior both in size ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker



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