thistle
Example Sentences
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It had a hole I could stick my thumb through, and bits of thistle somehow poked through the stitches.
From Literature
The florist-by-trade gestures behind her to hundreds of flowers contained in buckets — blue thistles, ivory anemones and calla lilies painted silver — all twisted and unfurling into the air.
From Los Angeles Times
Among England's Tudor rose, Scotland's thistle, the Welsh leek and the Irish shamrock are the Canadian maple leaf and India's lotus flower.
From BBC
But Russian thistle is a monstrous piece of botanical grotesquerie, loathed by all.
He wears goggles to protect them from brambles and thistles.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
