salsify
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
edible root of the salsify plant
Types & categories
- root hypernym
Parts & wholes
- vegetable oyster part holonym
Sense 2 noun
Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States
Types & categories
- herb hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Tragopogon member holonym
- vegetable oyster part meronym
- salsify part meronym
Sense 3 noun
either of two long roots eaten cooked
Types & categories
- root vegetable hypernym
- vegetable oyster hyponym
- scorzonera hyponym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | vegetable oyster |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | root |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Tragopogon |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | vegetable oyster |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | salsify |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | herb |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | root vegetable |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | vegetable oyster |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | scorzonera |