Crossword-Solution: ARTICHOKE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Artichoke | n. | The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food. |
| Artichoke | n. | See Jerusalem artichoke. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
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greedy person
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Sentences with ARTICHOKE (5)
The interior looked like a white pasty, a sort of soft crumb, the flavour of which was like that of an artichoke.
THE ARTICHOKE AND THE MUSKRAT On the shore of a lake stood an artichoke with its green leaves waving in the sun.
Very similar is his reference to seasons through what happens or is done in that season: ‘when the House-carrier, fleeing the Pleiades, climbs up the plants from the earth’, is the season for harvesting; or ‘when the artichoke flowers and the clicking grass-hopper, seated in a tree, pours down his shrill song’, is the time for rest.
Nor thence be missed the speary heads Of artichoke; nor thence the bean That gathered innocent and green Outsavours the belauded pea.
This plant bears a fruit, in shape like an artichoke, in which a number of seed-vessels are packed: these contain a pleasant sweet pulp, here much esteemed.
Quotes with ARTICHOKE (3)
But people, as Alan had once reflected to Greenie, were not at all like recipes. You could have all the right ingredients, in all the right amounts, and still there were no guarantees. Or perhaps they were like recipes, he pondered now, and the key to success was in finding the ingredients you had to remove, the components that turned all the others bitter, excessively salty, difficult to swallow; even too jarringly sweet. He had seen Greenie clarify butter, wash rice, devein…
He (Frederick II) famously describe Poland as an 'artichoke, ready to be consumed leaf by leaf
THOMAS Guilty Of mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But there’ll be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there won’t! Just see me As I am, like a perambulating Vegetable, patched with inconsequential Hair, looking out of two small jellies for the means Of life, balanced on folding bones, my sex No Beauty but a blemish to be hidden Behind judicious rags, driven and scorched By boomerang rages and lunacies w…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1994–2018).