OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4095

cardoon

/kɑː(ɹ)ˈduːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cardo • cardo borriquero • cardo comestible • cardo de comer • cardo lechero
Any of species Cynara cardunculus of prickly perennial plants which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable, related to the artichoke.
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.
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.
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