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SOW THISTLE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil

Synonyms:

milk thistle; sow thistle

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sow thistle" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sow thistle"):

milkweed; Sonchus oleraceus (annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads)

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

genus Sonchus; Sonchus (sow thistles)

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