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    MUSK THISTLE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectarplay

    Synonyms:

    Carduus nutans; musk thistle; nodding thistle

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("musk thistle" 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)

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

    Carduus; genus Carduus (genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles)

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