mirliton means A pear-shaped vegetable or its vine; the chayote. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
mirliton is pronounced /ˈmɜːlɪˌtɒn/.
noun
- A pear-shaped vegetable or its vine; the chayote.“To start your mirliton plant, buy the fruit in a produce-oriented market in spring and plant it in full sunlight in fertile, well-drained soil, leaving the stem half of the fruit out of the ground.”
- The eunuch flute, a kind of kazoo or membranophone.“In form the mirlitons resembled flutes, shawms, or other instruments, and were generally furnished with a parchment membrane.”
- An 18th-century hussar hat resembling a slightly conical shako or tall fez.“Headwear: This was either the colpack or the mirliton. Regiments No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 wore the former; 5, 6, 7 and 8 the latter.”
- A tartlet or biscuit garnished with almond, first produced in Rouen around 1800.“[…] Have moulds prepared as for the mirlitons of Rouen; fill them and finish in the same manner.”