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

2 senses of artichoke

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)

Sense 2
artichoke, globe artichoke -- (a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart)
       => vegetable, veggie, veg -- (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)