sea holly

English Thesaurus

1. widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	acanthus,
definition	:	any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers; native to Mediterranean region but widely cultivated (noun.plant)

2. European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bush, shrub,
definition	:	a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	eryngium, genus eryngium,
definition	:	large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution (noun.plant)