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Eggplant
Solanum melongena
A glossy purple nightshade fruit treated culinarily as a vegetable, central to cuisines from the Mediterranean to South and East Asia.
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List of Vegetables That Start With E
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Endive
Cichorium endivia (curly endive / escarole); Cichorium intybus var. foliosum (Belgian endive)
A chicory-family vegetable with crisp, pale, tightly packed leaves and a pleasant bitterness — Belgian endive is grown in darkness to blanch it white; curly endive (frisée) is the salad green with frilled, pale yellow-green leaves.
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