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Artichokes
Artichoke ripe is London Cockney rhyming slang for a pipe used for smoking.
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n The vulva. Refers to both appearance (the leaves imply the labia) and edibility.
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A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.
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A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy, amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose.
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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.
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The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.
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See Jerusalem artichoke.
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A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other Compositae.
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