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Blessed Thistle

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Noun

1. blessed thistle, holy thistle, lady's thistle, milk thistle, our lady's mild thistle, silybum marianum

tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America

2. blessed thistle, cnicus benedictus, sweet sultan

annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Blessed Thistle

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n.
An annual yellow-flowered herb (Cnicus benedictus) in the composite family, having spiny leaves and used in herbal medicine.

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