NODDING THISTLE

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Meaning:

Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar

Synonyms:

Carduus nutans; musk thistle; nodding thistle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("nodding 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)

Holonyms ("nodding thistle" is a member of...):

Carduus; genus Carduus (genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles)

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