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CARDUUS NUTANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carduus nutans mean? 

CARDUUS NUTANS (noun)
  The noun CARDUUS NUTANS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CARDUUS NUTANS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CARDUUS NUTANS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Carduus nutans; musk thistle; nodding thistle

Hypernyms ("Carduus nutans" 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 ("Carduus nutans" is a member of...):

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


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