PLUME THISTLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads

Synonyms:

plume thistle; plumed thistle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("plume 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plume thistle"):

Canada thistle; Cirsium arvense; creeping thistle (European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed)

Cirsium flodmanii; woolly thistle (thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves)

brook thistle; Cirsium rivulare (of central and southwestern Europe)

boar thistle; bull thistle; Cirsium lanceolatum; Cirsium vulgare; spear thistle (European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States)

Holonyms ("plume thistle" is a member of...):

Cirsium; genus Cirsium (plume thistles)