artichoke
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
artichoke /ˈɑːtɪtʃəʊk/
▶noun
- 1 a plant with large, thistle-like flower heads. [Cynara scolymus.]
- 2 (also globe artichoke) the unopened flower head of the artichoke, of which the heart and the fleshy bases of the bracts are edible.
- 3 see Jerusalem artichoke.
– origin C16: from northern Ital. articiocco, from Sp. alcarchofa, from Arab. al-ḵaršūfa.
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