Spanish oyster plant

American  

noun

1. a composite plant, Scolymus hispanicus, of southern Europe, having spiny, thistlelike leaf margins, small yellow flowers, and an edible root.

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Example Sentences

Here and there, amid their inextricable confusion, stands, like a chandelier with spreading, orange flowers for lights, the fierce Spanish oyster plant, whose spikes are strong as nails.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander