artichoke heart

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   the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower

   Broadervegetable

   Part ofartichoke

Questions about artichoke heart

What does artichoke heart mean?

artichoke heart means "the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower".

Is artichoke heart a common word?

artichoke heart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.