TERMINE PREFERITO
Artichoke
DEFINIZIONE
- n. A term borrowed from Italian "articiocco". It refers to the representation of the thistle-like plant Cynara scolymus, probably a cultigen of the cardoon originating in southern Europe, and now widely cultivated for its (partially) edible flower buds; it is also the flower bud of this plant, the edible parts of which are the receptacle and the fleshy bases of the large scales or bracts which surround it.
CONCETTO PIÙ GENERALE
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
APPARTIENE AL GRUPPO
IN ALTRE LINGUE
Artichaut
francese
Carciofo
italiano
Alcachofa
spagnolo
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/821
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