knobby

“These are nothing more than knobby, ugly, dirty turnips. I asked for beautiful and frightfully expensive tulips.”

Then she took the lighter from her tool belt and held a flame under the branch’s knobby end until it was blazing.

Celeriac — the knobby, subterranean root of the celery plant — makes an especially luxurious purée after a simmer in stock and dairy.

Striding forward, his sturdy right hand clutches a knobby wooden walking stick, cut from a tree branch and stripped.

On a recent drive north of Sacramento, I spotted a row of knobby peaks that looked more like a children’s book illustration than real-life mountains.