Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of garlic (Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon) having a twisted scape, or a related plant (A. scorodoprasum) having a garliclike bulb.
- noun The bulb of either of these plants, used as a seasoning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the onion kind, Allium Scorodoprasum, native through the middle latitudes of Europe, and there somewhat cultivated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A name of
Allium Scorodoprasum andAllium Ascalonium , two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also calledshallot .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a form of
garlic ; the sand leek
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun European leek cultivated and used like leeks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from German Rockenbolle : Rocken, distaff (from Middle High German rocke, from Old High German rocko, from Vulgar Latin *rotica, from Latin rotāre, to turn; see rotate) + Bolle, bulb (from Middle High German bolle, from Old High German bolla, ball; see bhel- in Indo-European roots).]
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Examples
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The principal hardnecks are rocambole, porcelain and purple stripe.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of the Hudson River Valley, NY Steve Poses 2010
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But then just found out in recent years, about the fast-growing seed stems of the rocambole garlic.
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I'm really interested in learning about different kinds of garlic, like rocambole garlic, elephant head which i don't think is technically garlic, etc.
G.O.O.P. Mercedes 2007
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Harvest from outside to the center., cultivar "soft neck," which can be found in grocery stores, or "rocambole 'var. ophioscorodon," which comes from the wild and is named because of its sinuous growth habit.
The Shad Plank 2010
chained_bear commented on the word rocambole
I don't care what people say. Rocambole is here to stay.
October 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word rocambole
*snort*
October 10, 2008