Crossword clues for salsify
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goat's beard \Goat's beard\, goatsbeard \goatsbeard\n. (Bot.), A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant; it is naturalized in US.
Syn: meadow salsify, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
biennial plant, 1710, from French salsifis, earlier sercifi, sassify (16c.), probably from Italian erba salsifica, from Old Italian salsifica, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin sal "salt" + fricare "to rub."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable uncountable English) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus (taxlink Tragopogon genus noshow=1), most of which have purple flowers. 2 # (taxlink Tragopogon porrifolius species noshow=1), a plant with linear leaves cultivated for its light-skinned edible root and herbal properties 3 (context countable uncountable English) (taxlink Scorzonera hispanica species show=1), a plant similar in flavor to ''T. porrifolius'', with lanceolate leaves cultivated for its dark-skinned edible root 4 (context uncountable English) The edible root of these plants.
WordNet
n. edible root of the salsify plant [syn: oyster plant]
Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States [syn: oyster plant, vegetable oyster, Tragopogon porrifolius]
either of two long roots eaten cooked
Wikipedia
Salsify may refer to:
- Tragopogon, a plant genus
- Tragopogon porrifolius, a plant with linear leaves cultivated for its light-skinned edible root and herbal properties
- Scorzonera hispanica, a plant with lanceolate leaves cultivated for its dark-skinned edible root
Usage examples of "salsify".
Or, instead of mashing the salsify after boiling, some prefer to drain it, and to dip each piece in batter and fry it in hot lard.
Six months later, all over the immense domain of the devil, one could see nothing but carrots, turnips, onions, salsify, all the plants whose juicy roots are good and savory and whose useless leaves are good for nothing but for feeding animals.
She was already packing food for the trip, a handful of hazel nuts, a parsnip, salsify root, and a dried fish.
I ate it ravenously, and with it new bread and salt butter, celeriac and salsify, and red wine.
Have ready three pints of boiling milk, into this put the salsify, liquor and pulp, thicken with a tablespoonful of flour, and season with butter, pepper and salt.
The second course presented Arabella with an even more bewildering choice, for there was, besides the baskets of pastry, a Rhenish cream, a jelly, a Savoy cake, a dish of salsify fried in butter, an omelette, and some anchovy toast.
She was torn between sauteed chicken livers with raspberry sauce, the cheapest thing on the menuwhich was far from cheap, actuallyor snails in a casserole with salsify, which was fifty cents more.
There are scorzonera growing here yet, half-hidden by weeds, and some strangled roots of salsify.
Have ready three pints of boiling milk, into this put the salsify, liquor and pulp, thicken with a tablespoonful of flour, and season with butter, pepper and salt.