LACTUCA SCARIOLA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States

Synonyms:

horse thistle; Lactuca scariola; Lactuca serriola; prickly lettuce

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Lactuca scariola" is a kind of...):

compass flower; compass plant (any of several plants having leaves so arranged on the axis as to indicate the cardinal points of the compass)

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