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Answer for the clue "Cardoon ", 6 letters:
cynara

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Cynara is a genus of thistle -like perennial plants in the sunflower family . They are native to the Mediterranean region, the Middle East , northwestern Africa , and the Canary Islands . The genus name comes from the Greek kynara , which means "artichoke". ...

Usage examples of cynara.

And then imagine, quite plausibly, that at the center of this world moves an illegitimate mulatto woman, and that this woman, Cynara, Cinnamon, or Cindy- beautiful and brown- gets to tell her story.

Eager to let the old Cinnamon die and let the new Cynara be born all the nights to come.

Cindy, nee Cynara, called Cinnamon, died many years later of a disease we now know to be lupus.

She left her diary to Miss Priss, who left it to her eldest daughter, who left it to her only daughter, Prissy Cynara Brown.

Like Mammy, Lady, and Planter, Cynara, Congressman, and Corinne were buried together.

March was mild, pure blue skies soaring overhead, brilliant sunlight spilling over the pathways in the park, and in April, as the trees began to green, as the first daffodils opened up delicate yellow faces to the sun, Cynara and I were racing right alongside Clinton and his stallion, aptly named Hercules.

Gently tugging the reins, I directed Cynara onto a side road and we passed more fields and a bank of trees, and then I saw the McCarry place in the distance.

I left the churchyard, mounted Cynara and rode home to join my husband for lunch.

I had leased space in a stable near the park in London, and Cynara was already there.

Kentucky Kate outside the old Empire that you had been faithful, Cynara, in your fashion.

Cynara made a thorough check on the shields Persephonean Kinsmen had embedded when she'd taken the captaincy.