thistle
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1. any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | weed, |
| definition | : | any plant that crowds out cultivated plants (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | carduus crispus, welted thistle, |
| definition | : | European biennial introduced in North America having flower heads in crowded clusters at ends of branches (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | carduus nutans, musk thistle, nodding thistle, |
| definition | : | Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | carline thistle, |
| definition | : | a thistle of the genus Carlina (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | plume thistle, plumed thistle, |
| definition | : | any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | golden thistle, |
| definition | : | any of several spiny Mediterranean herbs of the genus Scolymus having yellow flower heads (noun.plant) |
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