a plant of the daisy family with tapering purple-brown edible roots 鸦葱。 亦称black salsify, viper's grass
Scorzonera hispanica, family Compositae 拉丁名Scorzonera hispanica,菊科 ■[mass noun]the root of this plant used as a vegetable 西班牙鸦葱根
语源
early 17th cent.: from Italian, from scorzone, from an alteration of medieval Latin curtio(n-) 'venomous snake' (against whose venom the plant may have been regarded as an antidote)