oyster plant

Questions about oyster plant

What does oyster plant mean?

oyster plant means "edible root of the salsify plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for oyster plant?

Close synonyms include salsify, salsify, vegetable oyster, Tragopogon porrifolius, vegetable oyster. 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 oyster plant a common word?

oyster plant 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.