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Webster 1913 Edition


Cardoon

Car-doon′

(kär-doōn′)
,
Noun.
[F.
cardon
. The same word as F.
cardon
thistle, fr. L.
carduus
,
cardus
, LL.
cardo
. See 3d
Card
.]
(Bot.)
A large herbaceous plant (
Cynara Cardunculus
) related to the artichoke; – used in cookery and as a salad.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cardoon

CARDOON

,
Noun.
A species of Cynara, resembling the artichoke, but larger.ARD-TABLE,
Noun.
The table appropriated to the use of gamesters, or used for playing cards on.

Definition 2024


cardoon

cardoon

English

a cardoon
Cynara cardunculus

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Alternative forms

Noun

cardoon (plural cardoons)

  1. Cynara cardunculus, a prickly perennial plant related to the artichoke which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable.
    • 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A dictionarie of the French and English tongues:
      Means: m. Void, and emptie places between beds in gardens, reserved for speciall hearbes; such are the spaces left for Cardoons betweene rowes of Onyons.
    • 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle:
      As I have already said, I nowhere saw the cardoon south of the Salado; but it is probable that in proportion as that country becomes inhabited, the cardoon will extend its limits.
    • 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and Their Preparation:
      In the sixteenth century, Ruellius speaks of the cardoon as a food that was appreciated as asparagus is today.

Synonyms

  • (perennial plant): artichoke thistle, ground thistle, prickly artichoke

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