Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vegetable oyster

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables: veg-etable oys-ter
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A plant of species Tragopogon porrifolius, native to the eastern Mediterranean, widely cultivated.

Inflected Forms

vegetable oysters (plural)

Synonyms

purple salsify common salsify oyster plant Jerusalem star Jack go to bed goatsbeard salsify tragopogon porrifolius

Questions

What does vegetable oyster mean?: A plant of species Tragopogon porrifolius, native to the eastern Mediterranean, widely cultivated.

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