CARDOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardoon mean? 

• CARDOON (noun)
  The noun CARDOON has 2 senses:

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

2. only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes

  Familiarity information: CARDOON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cardoon; Cynara cardunculus

Hypernyms ("cardoon" is a kind of...):

vegetable (any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower)

Meronyms (parts of "cardoon"):

cardoon (only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes)

Holonyms ("cardoon" is a member of...):

Cynara; genus Cynara (artichoke; cardoon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cardoon" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Holonyms ("cardoon" is a part of...):

cardoon; Cynara cardunculus (southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots)