HyperDic: silybum_marianum

English > 1 sense of the expression Silybum marianum:
NOUNplantSilybum marianum, milk thistle, lady's thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, holy thistle, blessed thistletall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads
English > Silybum marianum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningtall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America.
Synonymsmilk thistle, lady's thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, holy thistle, blessed thistle
Member ofSilybum, genus Silybumsmall genus of east African herbs
Broaderherb, herbaceous plantA plant lacking a permanent woody stem

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