
1) Comestible vegetable 2) Comestible leafy veg 3) Comestible root vegetable 4) Comestible root veg 5) Comestible veg 6) Comestible leafy vegetable 7) Culinary vegetable 8) Edible vegetable leaf 9) Edible leaf 10) Edible leafy vegetable 11) Edible vegetable 12) Edible root 13) Edible tuber 14) Edible root vegetable
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1) Oyster plant
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• (n.) See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.
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biennial herb of the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region. The thick white taproot is cooked as a vegetable and has a flavour ...
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(Tragopogon) This vegetable (also known as Salsify and Vegetable Oyster) is grown for its edible roots. A slow growing biennial, this plant is grown as a long-season annual. Salsify grows wild in Europe and is naturalized in some parts of North America. It forms large tufts of wide, grass-like leaves and a heavy, deep taproot. On deep, friable soil...
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Sal'si·fy noun [ French
salsifis .]
(Botany) See
Oyster plant (a) , under
Oyster .
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Salsify is a purple-flowered composite plant whose root has an oyster-like flavour and is used as a culinary vegetable. It is also known as the oyster plant. vegetable oyster and purple goat's beard.
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[
n] - edible root of the salsify plant 2. [n] - Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root 3. [n] - either of two long roots eaten cooked
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noun either of two long roots eaten cooked
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Hardy biennial plant native to the Mediterranean region. Its white fleshy roots and spring shoots are cooked and eaten; the roots are said to taste like oysters. (
Tragopogon porrifolius, family Compositae.)
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