Plum vs. Eggplant — What's the Difference?

A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus.

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.

Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Prunus of the rose family, especially the cultivated species P. domestica and P. salicina, bearing smooth-skinned, fleshy, edible fruit with a single stone.

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

The fruit of any of these trees.

The large plant of the nightshade family which bears aubergines.

Any of several trees bearing plumlike fruit.

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.

The fruit of such a tree.

A fruit of this plant. Also called aubergine.

A raisin, when added to a pudding or cake.

A blackish purple.

A sugarplum.

The plant Solanum melongena.

A dark purple to deep reddish purple.

The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena: an aubergine.

An especially desirable position, assignment, or reward

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

Variant of plumb.

A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).

Variant of plumb.

A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall

The fruit and its tree.

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.

An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.

The fruit of the eggplant{1}.

A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.

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

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.

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

A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.

Extended senses.

One hundred thousand pounds; generally a fortune.

A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.

A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.

A testicle.

A fool, an idiot.

(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.

(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Plumb

Completely; utterly.

(mining) To plumb.

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay

A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.

Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone

Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit

Exactly;

Completely; used as intensifiers;