Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cynara_scolymus

1 sense of cynara scolymus

Sense 1
artichoke, globe artichoke, artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus -- (Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head)
       => vegetable -- (any 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)