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oyster plant

oyster plant noun: acanthus mollis (bear's breeches), native to the Mediterranean.

Noun

oyster plant (plural oyster plants)

  1. Acanthus mollis (bear's breeches), native to the Mediterranean
  2. Mertensia maritima (oysterleaf, sea lungwort, sea bluebell), native to Europe and North America with leaves said to taste like oysters
  3. Pseudopodospermum hispanicum (syn. Scorzonera hispanica, black salsify, black oyster plant), cultivated for its dark-skinned edible root
  4. Tragopogon porrifolius (common salsify, vegetable oyster, purple salsify, Jerusalem star), cultivated for its light-skinned edible root
  5. Tradescantia spathacea (formerly Tradescantia discolor) (oyster herb, boatlily, Moses in a basket, cradle lily, Moses in his cradle, Moses on a raft, Moses in the bulrushes, men in a boat, Moses-in-cradle, salsify)

Forms of oyster plant

pluraloyster plants

Questions about oyster plant

What does oyster plant mean?
Oyster plant means acanthus mollis (bear's breeches), native to the Mediterranean.
What part of speech is oyster plant?
Oyster plant is a noun.
What is the plural of oyster plant?
The plural of oyster plant is oyster plants.

Words near oyster plant in the dictionary

  1. oyster omelets
  2. oyster omelette
  3. oyster omelettes
  4. oyster parlor
  5. oyster parlors
  6. oyster plant
  7. oyster plants
  8. oyster Rockefeller
  9. oyster saloon
  10. oyster saloons
  11. oyster sauce

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