MELANCHOLY THISTLE

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Meaning:

Perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers

Synonyms:

Cirsium helenioides; Cirsium heterophylum; melancholy thistle

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("melancholy 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)

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