| 单词 | thistle |
| 释义 | thistle (once / 1973 pages) n WORD FAMILY thistle: thistlelike, thistles USAGE EXAMPLESIngredients like potassium, electrolytes, milk thistle, vitamin B-12 and green tea and caffeine extracts process the toxins inherent in alcohol. Los Angeles Times(Dec 21, 2016) Celtic eased aside Partick Thistle at Firhill to increase their lead at the top of the Premiership to 11 points. BBC(Dec 09, 2016) Thistle Theatre stages a puppet version of the holiday story about a mischievous cookie. Seattle Times(Dec 02, 2016) n any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves Hypo|Hyper 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 thistleEurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar carline thistlea thistle of the genus Carlina plume thistle, plumed thistleany of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads Cirsium discolor, field thistlestout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads Cirsium helenioides, Cirsium heterophylum, melancholy thistleperennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers Cnicus benedictus, blessed thistle, sweet sultanannual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers Onopordon acanthium, Onopordum acanthium, Scotch thistle, cotton thistle, woolly thistlebiennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers; naturalized in North America golden thistleany of several spiny Mediterranean herbs of the genus Scolymus having yellow flower heads Carlina acaulis, stemless carline thistlestemless perennial having large flowers with white or purple-brown florets nestled in a rosette of long spiny leaves hairy beneath; of alpine regions of southern and eastern Europe Carlina vulgaris, common carline thistleEurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils Canada thistle, Cirsium arvense, creeping thistleEuropean thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed Cirsium flodmanii, woolly thistlethistle of western North America having white woolly leaves Cirsium rivulare, brook thistleof central and southwestern Europe Cirsium lanceolatum, Cirsium vulgare, boar thistle, bull thistle, spear thistleEuropean thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States Scolymus hispanicus, Spanish oyster planta golden thistle of southwestern Europe cultivated for its edible sweet roots and edible leaves and stalks; its yellow flowers are used as a substitute for saffron weed any plant that crowds out cultivated plants |
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