egg plant
1egg|plant — «EHG PLANT, PLAHNT», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a plant with a large, purple fruit shaped somewhat like an egg. It belongs to the nightshade family. Some ornamental varieties may be white, yellow, or striped. 2. the fruit, used as a vegetable;… …
2egg-plant — eggplant egg plant , egg plant egg plant, n. 1. (Bot.) A plant ({Solanum Melongena}), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, glossy, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad apple. It is widely cultivated for its… …
3egg·plant — /ˈɛgˌplænt/ noun, pl plants [count, noncount] chiefly US : a somewhat egg shaped vegetable with usually purple skin called also (Brit) aubergine …
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5Alice's Egg Plant — est un court métrage de la série Alice Comedies sorti le 30 mai 1925. Sommaire 1 Synopsis 2 Fiche technique 3 Commentaires 4 Notes …
6Plant morphology — (or phytomorphology) is the general term for the study of the morphology (physical form and external structure) of plants. [Raven, P. H., R. F. Evert, S. E. Eichhorn. Biology of Plants , 7th ed., page 9. (New York: W. H. Freeman, 2005). ISBN 0… …
7plant disease — ▪ plant pathology Introduction an impairment of the normal state of a plant that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. All species of plants, wild and cultivated alike, are subject to disease. Although each species is… …
8egg — egg1 [eg] n. [ME < ON, replacing native ey < OE æg, akin to Ger ei (pl. eier), prob. < IE base * owjom , * ojom , of a bird (> L ovum, Gr ōion) < * awei , bird (> L avis)] 1. the oval or round body laid by a female bird, fish,… …
9Plant embryogenesis — is the process that produces a plant embryo from a fertilised ovule by asymmetric cell division and the differentiation of undifferentiated cells into tissues and organs. It occurs during seed development, when the single celled zygote undergoes… …
10plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …
