PLUME THISTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plume thistle mean? 

• PLUME THISTLE (noun)
  The noun PLUME THISTLE has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads

  Familiarity information: PLUME THISTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLUME THISTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

plume thistle; plumed thistle

Hypernyms ("plume 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)

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

Canada thistle; Cirsium arvense; creeping thistle (European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed)

Cirsium flodmanii; woolly thistle (thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves)

brook thistle; Cirsium rivulare (of central and southwestern Europe)

boar thistle; bull thistle; Cirsium lanceolatum; Cirsium vulgare; spear thistle (European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States)

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

Cirsium; genus Cirsium (plume thistles)