jerusalem : Idioms & Phrases


going to jerusalem

  • 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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Jerusalem artichoke

  • 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.
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  • 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

jerusalem artichoke sunflower

  • 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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Jerusalem cherry

  • 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

jerusalem cricket

  • 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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jerusalem cross

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

  • noun Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America
    feather geranium; Chenopodium botrys; Atriplex mexicana; Mexican tea.
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  • (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot (Chenopodium Botrys), common about houses and along roadsides.
Webster 1913

Jerusalem sage

  • noun a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers
    Phlomis fruticosa.
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  • (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family (Phlomis tuberosa).
Webster 1913

Jerusalem thorn

  • 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.
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  • (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree (Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm countries, and used for hedges.
Webster 1913

jerusalem warriors

  • 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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temple of jerusalem

  • 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.
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The New Jerusalem

  • Heaven; the Celestial City.
Webster 1913