crosne

Borrowed from French crosne.

• IPA^(key): /kɹoʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn
• Homophone: crone

crosne (plural crosnes)

1. A vegetable, of species Stachys affinis; a 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.

• Cerons, Cornes, Cosner, Crones, Oncers, censor, crones, necros, oncers, recons, scorne, sercon

• crône (rare)

From Crosnes, the French village where the plants were first grown natively.

• IPA^(key): /kʁon/

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• Homophones: Crône, crône, crônes, Crosnes, crosnes

crosne m (plural crosnes)

1. Chinese artichoke, crosne

• “crosne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.