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SONCHUS OLERACEUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Sonchus oleraceus mean?
• SONCHUS OLERACEUS (noun)
The noun SONCHUS OLERACEUS has 1 sense:
1. annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
Familiarity information: SONCHUS OLERACEUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
milkweed; Sonchus oleraceus
Hypernyms ("Sonchus oleraceus" is a kind of...):
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)
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