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MUSK THISTLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar
Synonyms:
Carduus nutans; musk thistle; nodding thistle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("musk thistle" is a kind of...):
thistle (any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves)
Holonyms ("musk thistle" is a member of...):
Carduus; genus Carduus (genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles)
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