vegetable oyster

American  

noun

1. salsify.

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vegetable oyster British  

noun

1. another name for salsify

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Etymology

Origin of vegetable oyster

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20

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vegetable oyster

Description.—The vegetable oyster plant, sometimes called purple goat's-beard, or salsify, is indigenous to some portions of Great Britain.

From Science in the Kitchen. by Kellogg, Mrs. E. E.

Salsify, oyster plant or vegetable oyster is a root of easy culture and of high food value.

From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous

The salsify, or "vegetable oyster," is a typical example of a most unaccountably slighted vegetable with us, and yet it is highly appreciated on the continent and in the United States.

From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.

Among the products of the order, may be mentioned chicory, lettuce, the artichoke, the vegetable oyster, arnica, chamomile-flowers, wormwood, absinth, elecampane, coltsfoot, taraxacum, oil of tansy, etc.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Salsify, or vegetable oyster, is another vegetable which would find great favour were it not so scarce and dear.

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mill, Mrs. (Jean Oliver)