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oysterplant

oysterplant is the alternative form of oyster plant.

Meaning of oyster plant

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 oysterplant

pluraloysterplants

Questions about oysterplant

What is oysterplant the alternative form of?
Oysterplant is the alternative form of oyster plant.

Words near oysterplant in the dictionary

  1. oystermania
  2. oystermen
  3. Oystermouth
  4. oysterous
  5. oysterperson
  6. oysterplant
  7. oysterplants
  8. oysters
  9. oysters Kilpatrick
  10. oysters Rockefeller
  11. oystershell

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oysterplant (page history and authors); oyster plant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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