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Definition of Cardoon
1. Noun. Southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots.
Group relationships: Cynara, Genus Cynara
Generic synonyms: Vegetable
2. Noun. Only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes.
Definition of Cardoon
1. n. A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.
Definition of Cardoon
1. Noun. prickly perennial plant, with impressive purple flowers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cardoon
1. a perennial plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardoon
Literary usage of Cardoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"(Vide Oliver, "Lesson in Elementary Botany.") THE cardoon. ... John Bauhin affirms
that the cardoon is a hybrid plant, or mule, from the seed of the common ..."
2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... of Puma—Meat Diet—• Guardia del Monte—Effects of Cattle on the Vegetation—cardoon —Buenos
Ayres—Corral where Cattle are Slaughtered, ..."
3. Garden Farming by Lee Cleveland Corbett (1913)
"cardoon cardoon is a plant of robust growth resembling the bur artichoke.
Its edible part is the thickened leafstalks, which are blanched in the same manner ..."
4. The Horticulturist; Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon, Loudon (Jane) (1849)
"In France the corollas, both of the cardoon and the artichoke, as well as those of
... When a cardoon is to be cooked, its heart, and the solid, not piped, ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... of Puma — Meat Diet — Guardia del Monte — Effects of Cattle on the Vegetation —
cardoon — Buenos Ayres — Corral where Cattle are Slaughtered. i8th. ..."
6. The Family Kitchen Gardener: Containing Plain and Accurate Descriptions of by Robert Buist (1861)
"THE cardoon is somewhat like the Artichoke, but rises to a greater height, and,
with it, may be classed as one of the fanciful vegetables, grown exclusively ..."
7. Journal of Researches Into the Geology & Natural History of the Various by Charles Darwin (1908)
"... of Puma— Meat Diet—Guardia del Monte—Effects of Cattle on the Vegetation—cardoon—
Buenos Ayres—Corral where Cattle are slaughtered. ..."
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