(亦作 globe artichoke)a European plant cultivated for its large thistle-like flower heads 洋蓟
Cynara scolymus, family Compositae 拉丁名Cynara scolymus,菊科 ■the unopened flower head of this, of which the heart and the fleshy bases of the bracts are edible 洋蓟花苞 见 Jerusalem artichoke
语源
mid 16th cent.: from northern Italian articiocco, from Spanish alcarchofa, from Arabic al-ḵaršūa