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FIELD THISTLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does field thistle mean?
• FIELD THISTLE (noun)
The noun FIELD THISTLE has 1 sense:
1. stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads
Familiarity information: FIELD THISTLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cirsium discolor; field thistle
Hypernyms ("field 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)
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