ARTICHOKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artichoke mean? 

• ARTICHOKE (noun)
  The noun ARTICHOKE has 2 senses:

1. Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head

2. a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart

  Familiarity information: ARTICHOKE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTICHOKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

artichoke; artichoke plant; Cynara scolymus; globe artichoke

Hypernyms ("artichoke" is a kind of...):

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)

Meronyms (parts of "artichoke"):

artichoke; globe artichoke (a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart)

Holonyms ("artichoke" is a member of...):

Cynara; genus Cynara (artichoke; cardoon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

artichoke; globe artichoke

Hypernyms ("artichoke" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Meronyms (parts of "artichoke"):

artichoke heart (the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower)

Holonyms ("artichoke" is a part of...):

artichoke; artichoke plant; Cynara scolymus; globe artichoke (Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head)