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n. Any of numerous weedy plants, chiefly of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, or Onopordum of the composite family, having prickly leaves and variously colored flower heads surrounded by prickly bracts.

n. Any of various similar or related plants.

n. Any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with prickly bracts.

n. This plant seen as the national emblem of Scotland.

n. The Order of the Thistle, or membership thereof.

n. Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.

n. One of numerous stout composite weeds, armed with spines or prickles, bearing globular or thickly cylindrical heads with purple, yellow, or white flowers and no rays, and dispersing their seed by the aid of a light globe of pappus.

n. The artichoke.

n. The wild lettuce, Lactuca Scariola, var. virosa.

n. Same as blessed thistle.

n. any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves

"It's the flower of France, you know – just as the thistle is the – '"

melon thistle   

weed   

virgin mary's thistle    bull-thistle    pasture-thistle    spear-thistle    argentine thistle    hundred thistle    distaff-thistle    order of the thistle    wolf's-thistle    st. barnaby's thistle   

cirsium discolor    melancholy thistle    plumed thistle    plume thistle    welted thistle    cotton thistle    onopordum acanthium    cirsium helenioides    woolly thistle    golden thistle   

globe thistle    milk thistle    star thistle    thistle butterfly    bull thistle    Russian thistle    sow thistle    blessed thistle    spear thistle    carline thistle   

prickle   

antimissile    bristle    dismissal    epistle    fissel    fissile    gristle    missal    missel    missile   

clover    fern    furze    bramble    brushwood    honeysuckle    daisy    poppy    cactus    sunflower