viper's grass

Questions about viper's grass

What does viper's grass mean?

viper's grass means "perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots".

What is another word for viper's grass?

Close synonyms include black salsify, scorzonera, Scorzonera hispanica. 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 viper's grass a common word?

viper's grass 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.