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plural cardoons
Cynara cardunculus, a prickly perennial plant related to the artichoke which has leaf stalks eaten as a vegetable. quotations examples
Means: m. Void, and emptie places between beds in gardens, reserved for speciall hearbes; such are the spaces left for Cardoons betweene rowes of Onyons.
1611, Randle Cotgrave, A dictionarie of the French and English tongues
As I have already said, I nowhere saw the cardoon south of the Salado; but it is probable that in proportion as that country becomes inhabited, the cardoon will extend its limits.
1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
In the sixteenth century, Ruellius speaks of the cardoon as a food that was appreciated as asparagus is today.
2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and Their Preparation