black salsify

Questions about black salsify

What does black salsify mean?

black salsify means "perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black salsify?

Close synonyms include viper's grass, scorzonera, Scorzonera hispanica, scorzonera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black salsify a common word?

black salsify is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.