THISTLEDOWN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("thistledown" is a kind of...):

pappus (calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions)

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