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perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black-skinned carrot-shaped edible roots

long black-skinned salsify

perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black-skinned carrot-shaped edible roots

long black-skinned salsify

skor-z[=o]-n[=e]'ra, n. a genus of Old World herbs of the Aster family--Viper's Grass. [It., scorza, bark, nera, black, fem. of nero--L. niger, black.]

The roots have been used as alexipharmics, and in hypochondriacal disorders and obstructions of the viscera. The root of the Scorzonera Hispan'ica is esculent, but inefficacious as a drug.