Obs. [A transl. of Gr. τραγοπώγων.] A plant: Goats-beard; Salsify.
1551. Turner, Herbal, I. (1568), 59. Dioscorides writeth no more of bukkes beard but that it is good to eat.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. xvii. 167. The Spaniardes Scurzonera seemeth also to be a kinde of Tragopogon or Buckesbearde.