The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jerusalem \Je*ru"sa*lem\ (j[-e]*r[udd]"s[.a]*l[e^]m), n. [Gr. 'Ieroysalh`m, fr. Heb. Y[e^]r[=u]sh[=a]laim.] The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus Christ. Jerusalem artichoke [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e., sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.)
An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower ( Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used as food.
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One of the tubers themselves.
Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of two species of Solanum ( Solanum Pseudo-capsicum and Solanum capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of cherries.
Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot ( Chenopodium Botrys), common about houses and along roadsides.
Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family ( Phlomis tuberosa).
Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree ( Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm countries, and used for hedges.
The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.
Wikipedia
The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple or topinambour, is a species of sunflower native to eastern North America, and found from eastern Canada and Maine west to North Dakota, and south to northern Florida and Texas. It is also cultivated widely across the temperate zone for its tuber, which is used as a root vegetable.
Usage examples of "jerusalem artichoke".
The case of the jerusalem artichoke, which is never propagated by seed, and of which consequently new varieties have not been produced, has even been advanced -- for it is now as tender as ever it was -- as proving that acclimatisation cannot be effected!
The senior gnole is a little like a Jerusalem artichoke made of India rubber, and he has small red eyes which are faceted in the same way that gemstone are.
Its flavor as well as the stalk which issues from it resemble those of the Jerusalem artichoke, except that the latter is much larger.
Later, when they were east of Rome, someone gave her a gift of a Jerusalem artichoke.
It is a small knob root a good deal in flavor and consistency like the Jerusalem artichoke.