Noun: girasole
| Singular | girasole |
| Plural | girasoles |
Sample Sentences
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The girasole can not become a competitor of the potato in such regions as the mountains of Colorado, but it thrives along the foothills and on the plains. [1918, T. D. A. Cokcerell, “The girasole or Jerusalem artichoke, a neglected source of food”, in The Scientific Monthly, volume 6, page 265:]
Nouns inflected like girasole
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Italian girasole.
2. From Italian girasole articiocco (“Jerusalem artichoke”). See: Italian Nouns '
girasole', Italian Nouns '
girasole articiocco'.