egg-plant

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• egg|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;… …   Useful english dictionary

• egg-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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• egg·plant — /ˈɛgˌplænt/ noun, pl plants [count, noncount] chiefly US : a somewhat egg shaped vegetable with usually purple skin called also (Brit) aubergine …   Useful english dictionary

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• Alice'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 …   Wikipédia en Français

• Plant 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… …   Wikipedia

• plant 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… …   Universalium

• egg — 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,… …   English World dictionary

• Plant 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… …   Wikipedia

• plant — 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… …   Universalium

• plant development — Introduction       a multiphasic process in which two distinct forms succeed each other in alternating generations. One form, created by the union of sexual cells (gametes (gamete)), contains two sets of similar chromosomes (diploid). At sexual… …   Universalium