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Sow Thistle

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Noun

1. milk thistle, sow thistle

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sow Thistle

see synonyms of sow thistle
noun
any of various plants of the Old World genus Sonchus, esp S. oleraceus, having milky juice, prickly leaves, and heads of yellow flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
. Also called: milk thistle or ()in NZ puha or ()in NZ rauriki

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Sow Thistle

see synonyms of sow thistle
any of several weeds (genus Sonchus) of the composite family, with yellow flower heads and spiny leaves

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sow Thistle

see synonyms of sow thistle
n.
Any of various plants of the genus Sonchus of the composite family, native to Eurasia and Africa but widespread as weeds, having prickly leaves, milky sap, and yellow flower heads.

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