cynara cardunculus

1. 1.

   southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots

   Synonymscardoon

   Broadervegetable

   Part ofCynara

   Partscardoon

Questions about cynara cardunculus

What does cynara cardunculus mean?

cynara cardunculus means "southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots".

What is another word for cynara cardunculus?

Close synonyms include cardoon. 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 cynara cardunculus a common word?

cynara cardunculus 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.