salsify

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On the side was a mystery vegetable we learned was salsify, a white asparagus look-alike that belongs to the sunflower family and tastes a little like artichoke.

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  1. noun A European plant (Tragopogon porrifolius) having grasslike leaves, purple flower heads, and an edible taproot.
  2. noun The root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.

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  1. French salsifis, from obsolete Italian (erba) salsifica.

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  1. Also salsafy; = Spanish salsifi = Portuguese sersifim = Swedish salsofi, from French salsifis, dial. sercifi, Old French sercifi, cerchefi, from Italian sassefrica, goat's-beard, from Latin saxum, a rock, + fricare, rub: see friction. Cf. sassafras.
 

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/ˈsælsɪfi/
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