vegetable oyster

Questions about vegetable oyster

What does vegetable oyster mean?

vegetable oyster means "Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for vegetable oyster?

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

vegetable oyster 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.