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    GLOBE ARTICHOKE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heartplay

    Synonyms:

    artichoke; globe artichoke

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("globe artichoke" is a kind of...):

    veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

    Meronyms (parts of "globe artichoke"):

    artichoke heart (the tender fleshy center of the immature artichoke flower)

    Holonyms ("globe artichoke" is a part of...):

    artichoke; artichoke plant; Cynara scolymus; globe artichoke (Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower headplay

    Synonyms:

    artichoke; artichoke plant; Cynara scolymus; globe artichoke

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("globe artichoke" is a kind of...):

    vegetable (any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower)

    Meronyms (parts of "globe artichoke"):

    artichoke; globe artichoke (a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart)

    Holonyms ("globe artichoke" is a member of...):

    Cynara; genus Cynara (artichoke; cardoon)

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