Salsify

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Goat's beard \Goat's beard\, goatsbeard \goatsbeard\n. (Bot.),
     A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus
     {Tragopogon}; -- so named from the long silky beard of the
     seeds. One species is the {salsify} or {oyster plant}; it is
     naturalized in US.
  


     Syn: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, {Tragopogon
          pratensis}.
          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Salsify \Sal"si*fy\ (?; 277), n. [F. salsifis.] (Bot.)
     See {Oyster plant}
     (a), under {Oyster}.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  salsify
       n 1: edible root of the salsify plant [syn: {oyster plant}]
       2: Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of
          purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root;
          naturalized throughout United States [syn: {oyster plant},
           {vegetable oyster}, {Tragopogon porrifolius}]
       3: either of two long roots eaten cooked