crosne
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crosne (plural crosnes)
- A vegetable, Stachys affinis, the Chinese artichoke.
- 2004, Nick Paumgarten, “Little Giant”, in The New Yorker, volume 80, number 35, page 23:
- Also called Chinese artichokes or chorogis, crosnes look like beetle larvae and taste like water chestnuts, but, in fact, they are tubers, in the mint family.
- 2007 April 25, “Dining Briefs”, in New York Times[1]:
- Kumquat and crosnes round out the dish, fulfilling the apparent fancy restaurant obligation to marshal off-the-beaten-path ingredients.
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From Crosnes, the French village where the plants were first grown natively.
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crosne m (plural crosnes)
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- “crosne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.