cardoon noun.
[kɑ:'du:n] E17.[French cardon, from carde edible part of the artichoke, from mod. Provençal cardo from Proto-Romance from Latin cardu(u)s thistle, artichoke: see -OON.]A plant of the composite family,
Cynara cardunculus, resembling a thistle and related to the globe artichoke; the fleshy inner leaf-stalks of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
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