English > plume thistle: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| 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 |
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| Member of | Cirsium, genus Cirsium | plume thistles |
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| Narrower | Canada thistle, creeping thistle, Cirsium arvense | European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed |
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| 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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