Eggplant vs. Cucumber — What's the Difference?

Eggplant (US, Australia, New Zealand, anglophone Canada), aubergine (UK, Ireland, Quebec, and most of mainland Western Europe) or brinjal (South Asia, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Solanum melongena is grown worldwide for its edible fruit.

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the Cucurbitaceae gourd family that bears usually cylindrical fruits, which are used as vegetables. Considered an annual plant, there are three main varieties of cucumber — slicing, pickling, and burpless/seedless — within which several cultivars have been created.

The purple egg-shaped fruit of a tropical Old World plant, which is eaten as a vegetable; an aubergine.

A tendril-bearing, climbing or sprawling annual plant (Cucumis sativus) widely cultivated for its edible cylindrical fruit that has a green rind and crisp white flesh.

The large plant of the nightshade family which bears aubergines.

The fruit of this plant, harvested when immature and eaten fresh or pickled.

A plant (Solanum melongena) native to India, cultivated for its edible, glossy, usually ovoid fruits that are chiefly purple but can be white, yellow, or green.

Any of several related or similar plants, such as the bur cucumber or the squirting cucumber.

A fruit of this plant. Also called aubergine.

A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.

A blackish purple.

The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

The plant Solanum melongena.

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The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena: an aubergine.

A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.

(North America) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.

A melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit

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Cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

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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 fruit, commonly eaten as a vegetable.

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Egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow

Hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable