jerusalem : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated
  musical chairs.
  

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• noun edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke
  
• noun tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers
  girasol; Jerusalem artichoke; Helianthus tuberosus.
  
• noun sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips
  sunchoke.
  

WordNet

• Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e., sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar. (Bot.) (a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower (Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used as food . (b) One of the tubers themselves.

Webster 1913

• noun tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers
  girasol; Jerusalem artichoke; Helianthus tuberosus.
  

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• noun small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
  Solanum pseudocapsicum; Madeira winter cherry; winter cherry.
  

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• (Bot.), the popular name of either of either of two species of Solanum (S. Pseudo-capsicum and S. capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of cherries.

Webster 1913

• noun large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States
  Stenopelmatus fuscus; sand cricket.
  

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• noun a cross with equal arms, each terminating in a small crossbar
  

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• noun Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America
  feather geranium; Chenopodium botrys; Atriplex mexicana; Mexican tea.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot (Chenopodium Botrys), common about houses and along roadsides.

Webster 1913

• noun a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers
  Phlomis fruticosa.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family (Phlomis tuberosa).

Webster 1913

• noun thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit
  Christ's-thorn; Paliurus spina-christi.
  
• noun spiny tree having dark red edible fruits
  Christ's-thorn; jujube; jujube bush; Ziziphus jujuba.
  
• noun large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States
  Parkinsonia aculeata; horsebean.
  
• noun East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu
  Acacia catechu; catechu.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree (Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm countries, and used for hedges.

Webster 1913

• noun ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah; killed a United States Air Force sergeant in 1991
  

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• noun any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall
  Temple of Solomon.
  

WordNet

• Heaven; the Celestial City.

Webster 1913