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salsify


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Salsify  \Sal"si*fy\  (?;  277),  n.  [F.  salsifis.]  (Bot.) 
  See  {Oyster  plant} 
  (a),  under  {Oyster}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [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 




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