artichoke
Other forms: artichokes
An artichoke is an edible plant with many leaves and a tender, delicious heart. Some people like to dip their artichoke leaves in melted butter.
The artichoke you can buy in the supermarket is called a "globe artichoke," and it's specially cultivated to be tasty. Artichokes are actually a kind of thistle, or a prickly, flowering plant. The part of an artichoke that's edible has to be picked before it blooms, or it becomes too tough to eat. The word comes from the Northern Italian articiocco, with its Arabic root word, al-hursufa.
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Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large, edible flower headsynonyms: Cynara scolymus, artichoke plant, globe artichoketype of:vegetableany 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
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a thistlelike flower head with edible, fleshy leaves and heartsynonyms: globe artichoke
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