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thistle Noun a plant with prickly-edged leaves, dense flower heads, and feathery hairs on the seeds [Old English thīstel] thistly adj
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Translationsthistle n thistle [ˈθisl] a type of prickly plant with purple flowers, which grows in fields etc. dissel شَوْك магарешки бодил bodlák tidsel die Distel γαϊδουράγκαθο cardo ohakas خاربن ohdake chardon דַרדַר कांटेदार पौधा čičak bogáncs tumbuhan berduri þistill cardo あざみ 엉겅퀴 dagys dadzis tumbuhan berduri dgn bunga berwarna ungu distel tistel oset tojo ciulin чертополох bodliak osat čičak tistel พืชไม้มีหนามจำพวก Cirsium, Carduus, Onopordum deve dikeni 薊 будяк, чортополох ايک خار دار پودا cây kế 蓟 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then Thistle hastened to the lily, for her cup was deep, and the white leaves fell like curtains over the fragrant bed; he was a dainty little Elf, and could not sleep among the clovers and bright buttercups. And although I do not think you will care to read his poems for a very long time to come, I write about him here both because he was a great poet and because with one of his poems, The Thistle and the Rose, he takes us back, as it were, over the Border into England once more. The case is different with the giant thistle (with variegated leaves) of the Pampas, for I met with it in the valley of the Sauce. |
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