mirliton
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈmɪr.lɪ.tɒn/
:
chayote
- While I ate it on a rainy night in Dominica, I saw that christophine, chayote, mirliton, or vegetable pear was the answer to a worldwide problem: the lack of an official food for gastronomy's most important holiday.
Examples
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I stuffed a dozen mirlitons that morning and baked them all day at five hundred degrees.
Fiction book (1999) -
And don't get me started on the squashes—so many varieties, from mirlitons to sweet dumplings, butternuts to buttercups.
Blog text (20) -
A mirliton is a squash that thinks it's a rock.
Fiction book (1999) -
Part of the reason to introduce the second course on this particular evening was that the mirlitons weren't done when everything else was ready.
Fiction book (1999) -
I was over by the stove, having decided that the mirliton pears didn't have a future.
Fiction book (1999) -
Then I think about Swiss chard wrapped around sausage, pumpkin and barley mixture, or mirlitons filled with highly seasoned shrimp stuffing.
Blog text (20) -
For dinner, we prepared baked mirlitons stuffed with a savory shrimp mixture.
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She garnished the salad with sliced mirlitons for added texture and flavor.
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In our cooking class, we learned how to make a delicious soup using mirlitons and spices.
Synonyms
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6.3
A green pear-shaped vegetable with a mild taste and crisp texture
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mirliton came into Louisiana English from French and there it became the local name for the pear-shaped green vegetable also called 'chayote'. A helpful way to remember this is to picture a pear-shaped mirliton on your plate, which is why in some regions mirliton means that vegetable.