| NOUN | plant | plume thistle, plumed thistle | any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads |
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| Meaning | Any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads. | |
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| Synonym | plumed thistle | |
| Member of | Cirsium, genus Cirsium | plume thistles |
| Narrower | Canada thistle, creeping thistle, Cirsium arvense | European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed |
| brook thistle, Cirsium rivulare | Of central and southwestern Europe | |
| bull thistle, boar thistle, spear thistle, Cirsium vulgare, Cirsium lanceolatum | European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves | |
| woolly thistle, Cirsium flodmanii | thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves | |
| Broader | thistle | Any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera ... / genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves |
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