Definitions for cardoons

cardoons car·doon

Spelling: [kahr-doon]
IPA: /kɑrˈdun/

Cardoons is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 314 anagrams from letters in cardoons (acdnoors).

Definitions for cardoons

noun

  1. a composite plant, Cynara cardunculus, of the Mediterranean area, having a root and leafstalks eaten as a vegetable.

Origin of cardoons

1605-15; Middle French cardon Old Provençal Medieval Latin cardōn-, stem of cardō, for Latin card(u)us thistle, cardoon

Examples for cardoons

The nest is usually built in a cardoon thistle, two or three feet above the ground, and is made of dry grass.

Four varieties are here described, of which the Spanish cardoon is the most common, and the cardon de Tours the best.

The artichoke offers fewer varieties, which bears out the opinion that it is a form derived from the cardoon.

No cultivated plant has run wild on so enormous a scale as the cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) in La Plata.

Other cheeses are made with vegetable rennet, some from similar thistle or cardoon juice, especially in Portugal.

After avoiding several blows aimed by the Chimango, it flew down and plunged into a cardoon bush.

The cardoon is a thistle-like plant, very similar in appearance to the Globe artichoke, but is grown as an annual.

The nest was in a cardoon bush, and contained five eggs—two of the Yellow-breast and three parasitical.

In its general character and appearance, the cardoon resembles the Artichoke.

The cardoon is as high as a horse's back, but the Pampas thistle is often higher than the crown of the rider's head.

Word Value for cardoons
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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