Thistle
['θɪs(ə)l] or ['θɪsl]
Definition
(noun.) 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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Definition
(n.) Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.
Typed by Corinne
Definition
n. a genus of prickly plants.—n. This′tle-down the tufted feathery bristles of the seeds of the thistle.—adj. This′tly overgrown with thistles.
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Examples
- A weed like the Russian thistle, for instance, will defy all usual means for its extermination. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Why is the Thistle the Emblem of Scotland? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At the same time a slight wind arose, and at the moment of totality the atmosphere was filled with thistle-down and other light articles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ever since that time the thistle has been made the insignia of Scotland. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was a thistle which pricked him vividly, but not too much, because all his movements were too discriminate and soft. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As new as eating thistles, would have been an answer to represent Mr. Casaubon's feelings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am not fond of nettles or thistles, or heath blossoms. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They were flowing for the fertilization of the land where grapes are gathered from thorns, and figs from thistles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He no more gathers grapes from thorns or figs from thistles than older men did in old times. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have certainly got thistles for figs in a worldly sense, but how could I tell what time would bring forth? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Among these are kaffir corn, sorghum, alfalfa, clover, millet, cowpeas, soy-beans, sugar beets, oats and even weeds and thistles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Sol