The horse, knobby-kneed and perverse, comes from behind and knocks off the more famous Thoroughbreds of the era.

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Squat and knobby, the tubers aren't artichokes at all, but part of a species of sunflower that grows underground.

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The rover was more of a camel, with a knobby-kneed chassis and a long, many-jointed neck, surmounted by a binocular head.

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Preferring the comfort of her knobby-kneed cotton pants, stretched out from sitting day-after-day at her computer, she accents her dark palette with tiger-print bedroom slippers.

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It is a fitting tribute to the fungus's foragers, who venture deep into the woods along with trained dogs and, sometimes, pigs to sniff out the knobby buried treasures.

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Turmeric, ground from Curcuma longa, a knobby root that looks similar to fresh ginger, has been used as an anti-inflammatory in India for thousands of years, says Shailinder Sodhi, who teaches ayurvedic, or traditional Indian, medicine, at Bastyr University, in Kenmore, Wash.

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