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Eggplant (Solanum melongena), or aubergine, is a species of nightshade, grown for its edible fruit. Eggplant is the common name in North America, Australia and New Zealand, but British English uses the French word aubergine.[1] It is known in South Asia and South Africa as brinjal.[2]
The fruit is widely used in cooking. As a member of the genus Solanum, it is related to the tomato and the potato. It was originally domesticated from the wild nightshade species, the thorn or bitter apple, S. incanum,[3][4][5] probably with two independent domestications, one in South Asia and one in East Asia.[6]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant
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