Definitions for artichoke

artichoke ar·ti·choke

Spelling: [ahr-ti-chohk]
IPA: /ˈɑr tɪˌtʃoʊk/

Artichoke is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 583 anagrams from letters in artichoke (acehikort).

Definitions for artichoke

noun

  1. a tall, thistlelike composite plant, Cynara scolymus, native to the Mediterranean region, of which the numerous scalelike bracts and receptacle of the immature flower head are eaten as a vegetable.
  2. the large, rounded, closed flower head itself.
  3. Jerusalem artichoke.

Origin of artichoke

1525-35; Upper Italian articiocco, variant (by dissimilation) of arciciocco, arcicioffo *arcarcioffo Old Spanish alcarchofa dialectal Arabic al-kharshūf the artichoke

Examples for artichoke

“I think I should like an artichoke for luncheon,” said she.

Page Six says they dined on mussel soup, crayfish and artichoke risotto at a tony Venetian restaurant.

Put the water in soup kettle; add the artichoke, onions, and protose.

Say “hot crab and artichoke dip” in a crowded room and heads will turn.

There, artichoke interrogation experiments were taking place at a safe house called Haus Waldorf.

So the next day I went out and I bought a microwave oven and I made an artichoke in the microwave.

Therefore it is clear to my mind that the word was not 'artichoke,' but 'aristocrat,' that he used.

They quickly cut the artichoke heads and heaped them up in the baskets.

The goal of the artichoke interrogation program, Marks explains, was “modifying behavior through covert means.”

The stick remained in the air, and Pussy came back to the house like an 'artichoke.'

Word Value for artichoke
Scrable

18

Words with friends

18

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