SOW THISTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sow thistle mean? 

• SOW THISTLE (noun)
  The noun SOW THISTLE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: SOW THISTLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOW THISTLE (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

milk thistle; sow thistle

Hypernyms ("sow thistle" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sow thistle"):

milkweed; Sonchus oleraceus (annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads)

Holonyms ("sow thistle" is a member of...):

genus Sonchus; Sonchus (sow thistles)