Defenition of the word milk thistle

• Defenition of the word milk thistle

  • tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
  • 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

Synonyms for the word milk thistle

• • blessed thistle
  • holy thistle
  • lady's thistle
  • Our Lady's mild thistle
  • Silybum marianum
  • sow thistle

Meronymys for the word milk thistle

• • genus Silybum
  • genus Sonchus
  • Silybum
  • Sonchus

Hyponyms for the word milk thistle

• • milkweed
  • Sonchus oleraceus

Hypernyms for the word milk thistle

• • bush
  • herb
  • herbaceous plant
  • shrub

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