CIRSIUM HELENIOIDES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cirsium helenioides mean? 

• CIRSIUM HELENIOIDES (noun)
  The noun CIRSIUM HELENIOIDES has 1 sense:

1. perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers

  Familiarity information: CIRSIUM HELENIOIDES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIRSIUM HELENIOIDES (noun)

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Meaning:

Perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cirsium helenioides; Cirsium heterophylum; melancholy thistle

Hypernyms ("Cirsium helenioides" is a kind of...):

thistle (any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves)