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say it: kahr-DOON
cardoon is a noun meaning "southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots". It carries 2 recorded senses.
southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots
only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cardoon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.