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    PLUME THISTLE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower headsplay

    Synonyms:

    plume thistle; plumed thistle

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("plume 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)

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

    Canada thistle; Cirsium arvense; creeping thistle (European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed)

    Cirsium flodmanii; woolly thistle (thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves)

    brook thistle; Cirsium rivulare (of central and southwestern Europe)

    boar thistle; bull thistle; Cirsium lanceolatum; Cirsium vulgare; spear thistle (European thistle with rather large heads and prickly leaves; extensively naturalized as a weed in the United States)

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

    Cirsium; genus Cirsium (plume thistles)

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