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单词 salsify
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salsifyn.

/ˈsalsɪfi/
Forms: Also 1600s salsifax, ( salsfy), 1700s sassafy, salsafay, 1700s–1800s salsafy.
Etymology: < French salsifis (in the 16–17th cent. variously sercifi, serquify, sassify, sassefy, sassefique, sassefrique), believed to be corruptly < Italian sassefrica, of unknown origin. Compare Spanish salsifi, Portuguese sersifim.
A biennial composite plant, the Purple Goat's-beard, Tragopogon porrifolius, indigenous to Great Britain and the Continent of Europe, producing an esculent root. meadow salsify (U.S.): the Yellow Goat's-beard, Tragopogon pratensis (Britton & Brown Flora Northern U.S. iii. 269).
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goat's beardc1400
bucks-beard1551
salsify1706
vegetable oyster1806
oyster plant1812
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Salsifie, (Fr.) Goats-bread [sic], an eatable root.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 482 Salsifie or Goats~beard.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Tragopogon..commonly call'd Salssafy or Sassafy.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 97 So likewise you may dress Root of Salsify and Scorzonera.
1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (1803) 85 Salsafay is estimable both for its roots..and for the young shoots rising in the spring.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 201 Many of the species are useful articles of food;..for instance..the roots of..Tragopogon, or Salsafy.
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 287/2 The Salsafy (or Salsify)..is a hardy biennial, with long cylindrical fleshy esculent roots.
1882 Garden 11 Nov. 425/3 Salsafy..when boiled in milk or fried in butter..has a peculiar resemblance to oysters.

Compounds

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black salsify n.
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scorzoner1597
viper's grass1597
scorzonera1629
black salsify1699
vegetable oyster1806
Spanish viper's grass1852
viper's plant1884
1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 61 Salsifax, Scorzonera.
1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Black salsify,..a related plant... It is similarly used, and its flavor is preferred by some.
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Spanish salsify n. Obsolete Scorzonera hispanica, producing a dark esculent root, used in the same way as salsify (main sense).
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1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 482 Spanish Salsifie or Scorzonera, is multiplied by Seed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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