salsify

Other forms of salsify

plural

salsifies·

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.

Questions about salsify

What does salsify mean?

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

How many syllables are in salsify?

salsify has 3 syllables: sal-si-fy. The stress falls on "sal".

What is another word for salsify?

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

salsify 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.