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单词 cotton-thistle
释义 ˈcotton-thistle
A tall species of thistle, Onopordum Acanthium, entirely covered with white cottony down.
1548Turner Names of Herbes, Acanthium..maye be called in englishe otethistle..or gum thistle, or cotten thistle, because it is gummy and the leaues haue in them a thynge lyke cotten.1611Cotgr. s.v. Argentin, Chardon argentin, Argentine, Siluer-thistle..Cotton-Thistle, the wilde white Thistle.1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 245 The..cotton-thistle (Onopordum acanthium), white with its woolly covering, is known to most.
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