milk_thistleEnglish

milk thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, Silybum marianum, blessed thistle, holy thistle

Noun

Tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads, naturalized in California and South America

English: milk thistle, lady's thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, holy thistle, blessed thistle, Silybum marianum

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

English: sow thistle, milk thistle

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blessed thistle holy thistle lady's thistle our lady's mild thistle silybum marianum sow thistle