musical chairs going to Jerusalem | 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 |
sand cricket Jerusalem cricket Stenopelmatus fuscus | large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States |
Jerusalem cross | a cross with equal arms, each terminating in a small crossbar |
Temple of Jerusalem Temple of Solomon | 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 th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in BC, the second was built in BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great inBC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD , all that remains is the Wailing Wall |
artichoke globe artichoke | a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart |
artichoke heart | the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower |
Jerusalem artichoke sunchoke | sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips |
Jerusalem Warriors | ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah, killed a United States Air Force sergeant in |
Jerusalem capital of Israel | capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed), it was captured from Jordan in in the Six Day War, a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims, was the capital of an ancient kingdom |
catechu Jerusalem thorn Acacia catechu | East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods, source of black catechu |
Jerusalem oak feather geranium Mexican tea Chenopodium botrys Atriplex mexicana | Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers, naturalized North America |
artichoke globe artichoke artichoke plant Cynara scolymus | Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head |
Jerusalem artichoke girasol Jerusalem artichoke sunflower Helianthus tuberosus | tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves, widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers |
Jerusalem artichoke | edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke |
Jerusalem thorn horsebean Parkinsonia aculeata | 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 |
Jerusalem sage Phlomis fruticosa | a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers |
Jerusalem cherry winter cherry Madeira winter cherry Solanum pseudocapsicum | small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit |
jujube jujube bush Christ's-thorn Jerusalem thorn Ziziphus jujuba | spiny tree having dark red edible fruits |
Christ's-thorn Jerusalem thorn Paliurus spinahristi | thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit |