gnarl

It’ll be a long time before the baby Joshua trees resemble the gnarled icons that dot the park.

The trees are skinny, with gnarled branches that twist around one another.

The old woman grunted and used one long, gnarled finger to beckon Penelope inside.

She wore bangle earrings and rings etched with strange talismans on each of her gnarled fingers.

Environmentalists warn that development projects threaten the region's unique mix of dunes, pine forests, gnarled cork trees and an endless patchwork of rice fields.