Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oyster plant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

Syllables: oys-ter -plant
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Acanthus mollis (bear's breeches), native to the Mediterranean

noun

Mertensia maritima (oysterleaf, sea lungwort, sea bluebell), native to Europe and North America with leaves said to taste like oysters

noun

Pseudopodospermum hispanicum (syn. Scorzonera hispanica, black salsify, black oyster plant), cultivated for its dark-skinned edible root

noun

Tragopogon porrifolius (common salsify, vegetable oyster, purple salsify, Jerusalem star), cultivated for its light-skinned edible root

noun

Tradescantia spathacea (formerly Tradescantia discolor) (oyster herb, boatlily, Moses in a basket, cradle lily, Moses in his cradle, Moses on a raft, Moses in the bulrushes, men in a boat, Moses-in-cradle, salsify)

Inflected Forms

oyster plants (plural)

Synonyms

vegetable oyster salsify tragopogon porrifolius

Questions

What does oyster plant mean?: Acanthus mollis (bear's breeches), native to the Mediterranean

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