artichoke

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the immature flower head of the globe artichoke, whose fleshy leaf bases and heart are eaten as a vegetable

   She steamed the artichoke and dipped each tender leaf in lemon butter.

2. 2
   noun

   a large Mediterranean thistlelike plant cultivated for its edible flower heads

   The artichoke grew tall silver-green leaves at the back of the garden.

Appears in

Through northern Italian articiocco and Spanish alcarchofa from Andalusian Arabic al-kharsufa, based on Arabic al-khurshuf, 'the artichoke.' English reshaped the unfamiliar ending under the influence of choke, but the plant's name is not historically derived from the verb choke.

Topics

External links

• Google Images
• Cambridge Dictionary
• Wiktionary