HyperDic: sunchoke

English > 1 sense of the word *sunchoke*:
NOUN	food	sunchoke, Jerusalem artichoke	sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips

English > *sunchoke*: 1 sense > noun 1, food
Meaning	sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips.
Synonym	Jerusalem artichoke
Broader	root vegetable	Any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers
Spanish	aguaturma, pataca, patata de caña, sunchoke, topinambur, tupinambo
Catalan	nyàmara, sunchoke