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PLUME THISTLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads
Synonyms:
plume thistle; plumed thistle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plume 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plume thistle"):
Canada thistle; Cirsium arvense; creeping thistle (European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed)
Cirsium flodmanii; woolly thistle (thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves)
brook thistle; Cirsium rivulare (of central and southwestern Europe)
boar thistle; bull thistle; Cirsium lanceolatum; Cirsium vulgare; spear thistle (European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States)
Holonyms ("plume thistle" is a member of...):
Cirsium; genus Cirsium (plume thistles)
