What is "artichokes"

Usage examples of "artichokes".

And cut the last hay and turn it and dig the Jerusalem artichokes and harvest the sunflowers and… Oh, joy, oh, my aching back.

Fanny made irresponsible promises to the poor man, and you're just as bad - with your jokes about tearooms and artichokes.

Not just because everywhere I looked, I saw things I'd never have seen back in New York: roadside stands advertising artichokes or pomegranates, twelve for a dollar.

The roadside artichokes, the lemon groves, the ocean…they were nothing, really.

General Dreedle devoured fresh eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner - between meals he devoured more fresh eggs - until Milo located abundant sources of fresh veal, beef, duck, baby lamb chops, mushroom caps, broccoli, South African rock lobster tails, shrimp, hams, puddings, grapes, ice cream, strawberries and artichokes.

Yossarian roared with exasperated laughter at the trick, but in the end there was nothing for them to do when night fell but eat a damp dinner in a dirty restaurant and hitch a ride back to the airfield, where they slept on the chill metal floor of the plane and turned and tossed in groaning torment until the truck drivers blasted up less than two hours later with their crates of artichokes and chased them out onto the ground while they filled up the plane.

Yossarian and Orr were dripping wet by the time the trucks drove away and had no choice but to squeeze themselves back into the plane and roll themselves up like shivering anchovies between the jolting corners of the crates of artichokes that Milo flew up to Naples at dawn and exchanged for the cinnamon sticks, cloves, vanilla beans and pepper pods that he rushed right back down south with that same day to Malta, where, it turned out, he was Assistant Governor-General.

Now that includes domestic fowl, avocados, olives, citrus, nuts, and artichokes.