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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A Mediterranean thistlelike plant (Cynara scolymus) in the composite family, having pinnately divided leaves and large discoid heads of bluish flowers.
  2. n. The edible, immature flower head of this plant. Also called globe artichoke.
  3. n. The Jerusalem artichoke.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.
  2. n. See Jerusalem artichoke.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head
  2. n. a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart

Etymologies

  1. From northern Italian dialectal articiocco, alteration of arcicioffo (possibly influenced by ciocco ("stump"), from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Arabic القرشوف (al-qaršūf, "artichoke"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Ultimately from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Arabic al-ḫaršuf : al-, the + ḫuršūf, ḫaršuf, artichoke. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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