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 Definitions of thistle  [ˈθɪs əl]  

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Definition of 'thistle' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) thistle
any of various prickly composite plants usu. having showy purple flower heads, esp. of the genera Cirsium, Carduus, and
Onopordum.

2.  thistle
any of various other prickly plants.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME thistel, OE, c. OS thīstil, OHG distil, ON thistill)

Definition of 'thistle' Princeton's WordNet 

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


Definition of 'thistle' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) thistle
any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants


Translation of 'thistle' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a type of prickly plant with purple flowers, which grows in fields etc.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: dissel Arabic flag Arabic: شَوْك Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: магарешки бодил
Brazilian flag Brazilian: tojo Czech flag Czech: bodlák German flag German: die Distel
Danish flag Danish: tidsel Greek flag Greek: γαϊδουράγκαθο Spanish flag Spanish: cardo
Estonian flag Estonian: ohakas Farsi flag Farsi: خاربن Finnish flag Finnish: ohdake
French flag French: chardon Hebrew flag Hebrew: דַרדַר Hindi flag Hindi: कांटेदार पौधा
Croatian flag Croatian: čičak Hungarian flag Hungarian: bogáncs Indonesian flag Indonesian: tumbuhan berduri
Icelandic flag Icelandic: þistill Italian flag Italian: cardo Japanese flag Japanese: あざみ
Korean flag Korean: 엉겅퀴 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: dagys Latvian flag Latvian: dadzis
Malay flag Malay: tumbuhan berduri dgn bung Dutch flag Dutch: distel Norwegian flag Norwegian: tistel
Polish flag Polish: oset Persian flag Persian: خاربن Pashto flag Pashto: يوډول جګ اغزن بوټى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: tojo Romanian flag Romanian: ciulin Russian flag Russian: чертополох
Slovak flag Slovak: bodliak Slovenian flag Slovenian: osat Serbian flag Serbian: čičak
Swedish flag Swedish: tistel Thai flag Thai: พืชไม้มีหนามจำพวก Cirsium Turkish flag Turkish: deve dikeni
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese:  Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: будяк, чортополох Urdu flag Urdu: ايک خار دار پودا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cây kế Chinese flag Chinese: 

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