Editing Eggplant (section)

===''Eggplant''-type names===

The name ''eggplant'' is usual in [[North American English]] and [[Australian English]]. First recorded in 1763, the word "eggplant" was originally applied to white cultivars, which look very much like hen's eggs (see image).<ref name="oed">{{cite web|title=Eggplant|url=https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=eggplant|publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper|access-date=8 December 2017|date=2017}}</ref><ref name="www">{{cite web|title=Eggplant|url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-egg1.htm|publisher=World Wide Worlds|access-date=8 December 2017|date=20 October 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209203908/http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-egg1.htm|archive-date=9 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>"'[https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/59900 egg-plant], n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, July 2018. Accessed 23 September 2018.</ref> Similar names are widespread in other languages, such as the [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] term ''eggaldin'' or the [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''planhigyn ŵy''.

The white, egg-shaped varieties of the eggplant's fruits are also known as ''garden eggs'',<ref>'[https://www.nap.edu/read/11763/chapter/9 Eggplant (Garden Egg)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923200826/https://www.nap.edu/read/11763/chapter/9 |date=2018-09-23 }}', in National Research Council of the National Academies, ''[https://www.nap.edu/catalog/11763/lost-crops-of-africa-volume-ii-vegetables Lost Crops of Africa, Volume II: Vegetables] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923200828/https://www.nap.edu/catalog/11763/lost-crops-of-africa-volume-ii-vegetables |date=2018-09-23 }}'' (Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2006), pp. 136–53. {{ISBN|978-0-309-66582-7}}, {{doi|10.17226/11763}}.</ref> a term first attested in 1811.<ref>'Garden egg', in "[https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/76724 garden, n.]" ''OED'', 3rd edn (2017).</ref> The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' records that between 1797 and 1888, the name ''vegetable egg'' was also used.<ref>'[https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/299990 Vegetable egg, n.', ''OED'', 3rd edn (2012).]</ref>