1. Long white salsify
   "The chef featured braised vegetable oyster in a winter vegetable medley";
   - oyster plant
    
2. Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States
   "They roasted vegetable oyster root as a vegetable";
   - salsify, oyster plant, Tragopogon porrifolius

Derived forms: vegetable oysters

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, salsify

Part of: genus Tragopogon, Tragopogon

Encyclopedia: Vegetable oyster