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

It’s dawn, and someone is crouching near the rows, cutting heads of lettuce, pulling up a few carrots, unearthing a white knobby thing and bringing it all indoors.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 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

It was small and leathery looking, with a large, knobby, bald head exactly like a potato.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling