eggplant ethymology

My students from culinary arts in 1st B asked me today why an "aubergine" is also called "eggplant", since I don't know I asked them to search the web.

Here you have a couple of links to discover more about eggplants, aubergines, "berenjenas" or as they are called in Basque "auberginiak"

http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/DCavagnaro_Gallery.html

this page will show you some wonderful pictures, we thank them for letting us visit them.