noun
any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads
• Syn: ↑plume thistle
• Hypernyms: ↑thistle
• Hyponyms:
↑Canada thistle, ↑creeping thistle, ↑Cirsium arvense, ↑woolly thistle, ↑Cirsium flodmanii, ↑brook thistle, ↑Cirsium rivulare, ↑bull thistle, ↑boar thistle, ↑spear thistle, ↑Cirsium vulgare, ↑Cirsium lanceolatum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cirsium, ↑genus Cirsium
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noun : a thistle of the genus Circium
Useful english dictionary. 2012.