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blessed thistle

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An annual yellow-flowered herb (Cnicus benedictus) in the composite family, having spiny leaves and used in herbal medicine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • See under thistle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
  • noun annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From its use by monks in the Middle Ages.]

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