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this·tle

(thĭs′əl)

1. Any of numerous often weedy plants of several genera of the composite family, including Cirsium, Carduus, and Onopordum, having prickly leaves and floral bracts.

2. Any of various other prickly plants, such as Russian thistle.

[Middle English, from Old English thistel; see steig- in Indo-European roots.]

thistle

(ˈθɪsəl)

1. (Plants) any of numerous plants of the genera Cirsium,Carduus, and related genera, having prickly-edged leaves, pink, purple, yellow, or white dense flower heads, and feathery hairs on the seeds: family Asteraceae (composites)

2. (Heraldry) a thistle, or a representation of one, as the national emblem of Scotland

[Old English thīstel, related to Old Saxon, Old High German thīstil, Old Norse thīstill]

ˈthistly adj

Thistle

(ˈθɪsəl)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) See Order of the Thistle

2. (Heraldry) (sometimes not capital)

a. the emblem of this Order

b. membership of this Order

this•tle

(ˈθɪs əl)

n.

1. any of various prickly composite plants usu. having showy purple flower heads, esp. of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, and Onopordum.

2. any of various other prickly plants.

[before 900; Middle English thistel, Old English, c. Old Saxon thīstil, Old High German distil, Old Norse thistill]

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

aster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia

Carduus crispus, welted thistle - European biennial introduced in North America having flower heads in crowded clusters at ends of branches

Carduus nutans, musk thistle, nodding thistle - Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar

carline thistle - a thistle of the genus Carlina

plume thistle, plumed thistle - any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads

Cirsium discolor, field thistle - stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads

Cirsium helenioides, Cirsium heterophylum, melancholy thistle - perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers

Cnicus benedictus, sweet sultan, blessed thistle - annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers

cotton thistle, Onopordon acanthium, Onopordum acanthium, Scotch thistle, woolly thistle - biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers; naturalized in North America

golden thistle - any of several spiny Mediterranean herbs of the genus Scolymus having yellow flower heads

weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

Translations

شَوْكنَبَاتُ الشَّوْك

card

bodlák

tidsel

Distel

γαϊδουράγκαθο

kardo

cardo