Usually means: Perennial plant, edible, root vegetable.
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  1. oyster plant: Merriam-Webster
  2. oyster plant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oyster plant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oyster plant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oyster plant: Vocabulary.com
  6. oyster plant: Wordnik
  7. oyster plant: Wiktionary
  8. oyster plant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. oyster plant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Oyster plant, oyster plant: Dictionary.com
  11. Oyster Plant, Oyster plant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. oyster plant: Rhymezone
  13. oyster plant: FreeDictionary.org
  14. oyster plant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. oyster plant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (oyster plant)

noun:  Acanthus mollis (bear's breeches), native to the Mediterranean
noun:  Mertensia maritima (oysterleaf, sea lungwort, sea bluebell), native to Europe and North America with leaves said to taste like oysters
noun:  Pseudopodospermum hispanicum (syn. Scorzonera hispanica, black salsify, black oyster plant), cultivated for its dark-skinned edible root
noun:  Tragopogon porrifolius (common salsify, vegetable oyster, purple salsify, Jerusalem star), cultivated for its light-skinned edible root
noun:  Tradescantia spathacea (formerly Tradescantia discolor) (oyster herb, boatlily, Moses in a basket, cradle lily, Moses in his cradle, Moses on a raft, Moses in the bulrushes, men in a boat, Moses-in-cradle, salsify)

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