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STAR-THISTLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
Synonyms:
caltrop; Centauria calcitrapa; star-thistle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("star-thistle" is a kind of...):
centaury (any plant of the genus Centaurea)