| NOUN | plant | sow thistle, milk thistle | any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers |
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| Meaning | 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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| Synonym | milk thistle | |
| Member of | Sonchus, genus Sonchus | sow thistles |
| Narrower | milkweed, Sonchus oleraceus | annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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