knobby

Example Sentences

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Celeriac — the knobby, subterranean root of the celery plant — makes an especially luxurious purée after a simmer in stock and dairy.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

“That’s good,” he said, before pointing a knobby finger at me.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

Pepper X has been in the works since Currie last set the hottest pepper record in 2013 with the Carolina Reaper, a bright red knobby fruit with what aficionados call a scorpion tail.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2023

She neared what had been a promising colony of knobby brain coral, tiny and dome-shaped with undulating ridges.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Nodding to the rhythm, a pair of knobby little buds in his ears.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon