cardon

• cardona

cardon (plural cardons)

1. Any of several large columnar cacti mostly of the genus Cereus.

• Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, candor, dacron

Borrowed from Old Occitan cardon, from Medieval Latin cardō, from Latin carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of chardon and carde.

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cardon m (plural cardons)

1. cardoon (Cynara scolymus)^[1]

• cardoncelle
• chardon

• “cardon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old Occitan cardon, from Medieval Latin cardo, from Latin carduus (“thistle”).

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈðu/

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cardon m (plural cardons)

1. (Gascony, Provençal, Languedoc) thistle

• chaucida (“Limousin, Auvergnat”)
• chaucit (“Limousin”)
• caucida (“Languedoc”)
• caucic (“Gascon”)
• chaucier (“Vivaro-alpine”)

From Medieval Latin cardo, from Latin carduus (“thistle”).

cardon m (oblique plural cardons, nominative singular cardons, nominative plural cardon)

1. thistle

Borrowed from French cardon.

cardon m (uncountable)

1. cardoon