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SOW THISTLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil
Synonyms:
milk thistle; sow thistle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sow thistle" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sow thistle"):
milkweed; Sonchus oleraceus (annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads)
Holonyms ("sow thistle" is a member of...):
genus Sonchus; Sonchus (sow thistles)
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