thistle
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
thistle/ˈθɪsl/
▶noun
- 1 a widely distributed herbaceous plant of the daisy family, typically with a prickly stem and leaves and rounded heads of purple flowers. [Carlina, Carduus, and other genera.]
- 2 a plant of the thistle type as the Scottish national emblem.
– derivatives
thistly adjective.
thistly adjective.
– origin OE thistel, of Gmc origin.
'thistle' also found in these Oxford entries:
artichoke
- cardoon
- carline thistle
- ceanothus
- chard
- ixia
- knapweed
- KT
- milk thistle
- safflower
- sowthistle
- thistledown
