Eggplant?

[Gabaw]

While I question the intelligence of some denizens of the internet, I would assume that most of us are familiar with the concept of "egg", "plant", and "eggplant". Riddle me this, fapman:

The plural for "egg" is "eggs", and the plural of "plant" is "plants". Why, then, is the plural version of "eggplant" not "eggsplants"?

 

[Sphere42]

Because "egg" is an attribute describing the type of plant. Those might be pluralised separately in some cases, but more often you'll see a possessive form which looks like a plural e.g. "womens' clothing".

The plant is pluralised as normal, just as e.g. "engine" - "engines" vs "fire engine" - "fire engines". You have multiple engines which may fight the same fire, or different fires, or simply serve the general duty of "fire"fighting without actually spraying water at any fires at all.